Rex Swain's APL Information

• APL Language and Organizations
• APL Publications
• APL Vendors
• Free APL Interpreters
• Low-Cost APL Interpreters for Personal Use
• STSC History
• STSC Alumni on the Net
• APL+Win Tools
• Dyalog APL/W Tools and Utilities

• APL (DMOZ Open Directory Project): http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Programming/Languages/APL/
• ACM/SIGAPL: http://www.acm.org/sigapl
  • APL White Pages: http://www.acm.org/sigapl/white.htm Names and addresses of ACM/SIGAPL members
• British APL Association: http://www.vector.org.uk Home of Vector magazine
• Finnish APL Association: http://www.pyr.fi/apl/index.htm
• APL Newsgroup: comp.lang.apl
• APL wiki: http://aplwiki.com

• Vector (British APL Association): http://www.vector.org.uk
• Quote Quad (ACM/SIGAPL): http://www.acm.org/sigapl/qq.htm

• APL2000 (APL+Win): http://www.apl2000.com
• Dyalog Ltd (Dyalog APL): http://www.dyalog.com
• IBM (APL2): http://www.ibm.com/software/ad/apl
• MicroAPL (APLX): http://www.microapl.co.uk/apl

• NARS2000 by Bob Smith is a free open-source APL interpreter: http://www.nars2000.org
• APL2 from IBM is available free to educators through the IBM Academic Initiative: http://ibm.com/university
• Dyalog APL for Windows is available free for educational use: Dyalog Pricing
• TryAPL2 from IBM (for PC DOS): ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/ps/products/apl2/demos/tryapl2/
• APLSE from APL2000 (basically APL*PLUS/PC version 10, for PC DOS): http://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/apl_archives/apl/apl-plus/index.html
  [ See also Freeware DOS APL for download and installation tips ]
  [ See also bottom of http://marthallama.org/apl/ re getting APLSE to run under Windows 2000, NT or XP ]
  [ See also STSC APL Dos box bitmap fonts: http://paulhoule.com/stscfon/ ]
  

• Dyalog APL for Windows is available for £50 for personal, non-commercial use: Dyalog Pricing

• 1969 - Scientific Time Sharing Corporation incorporated
• 1978 - Initial public offering
• 1979 - Name changed to STSC, Inc.
• 1981 - STSC public offering
• 1982 - Acquired by Continental Telecom Inc.
• 1986 - LBO
• 1992 - Name changed to Manugistics ("Proof that all the good names are taken" -- PC Magazine)
• 1993 - Manugistics Group, Inc. initial public offering
• 1995 - Manugistics sold PC and UNIX versions of APL*PLUS to LEX2000 Financial Reporting Software, which then created a subsidiary named APL2000; products renamed APL+ (to save keystrokes?)
• 1999 - Cognos acquired LEX2000 and APL2000
• 2005 - APLNow LLC purchased the assets of APL2000 Inc. from Cognos. APLNow LLC will do business as "APL2000".

• The STSC Story: It's About Time A promotional film made by Scientific Time Sharing Corporation to promote its APL*PLUS Service, circa 1976

• Scientific Time Sharing Corporation (STSC) Memorabilia re the 1976 installation of an Amdahl 470 mainframe

• Roger Moore has posted an essay on the History of I P Sharp Associates Timesharing and Network which mentions a 1969 arrangement with Scientific Time Sharing Corporation

For many years, I maintained a list of STSC Alumni and their email (no, not 666 BOX) addresses. But the email addresses were often harvested by spammers, so I have reluctantly removed it.

In July of 2008 I created an STSC Alumni group on LinkedIn, which is a sort of Facebook for professional people. Join LinkedIn and then join the STSC Alumni group.

• Free Tools for APL+Win Programmers: A consolidated version of presentations made at the APL2000 Conferences from 2003 through 2006, plus additional tools created since then. See the Tool Talk page for PDF and APL+Win user command file. Last updated 4/16/2010.

• APL2 Emulation Utilities: apl2.dws
  Contains the AXIS and NWISE operators (March 1996)
• "Migration From APL2 to APL/W":
  vector.doc in Word 6.0 format; requires vector.ttf font
  vector2.doc in Word 2003 format with embedded fonts
  Appeared in Vector magazine, vol. 12 no. 4 (April 1996)
• VectorAPL font: vector.ttf
  TrueType font used in VECTOR.DOC