Array theory in an APL environment

  • Authors:
  • A. Hassitt;L. E. Lyon

  • Affiliations:
  • I. B. M. Scientific Center, 1530 Page Mill Road, Palo Alto, California;I. B. M. Scientific Center, 1530 Page Mill Road, Palo Alto, California

  • Venue:
  • APL '79 Proceedings of the international conference on APL: part 1
  • Year:
  • 1979

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Abstract

Trenchard More has proposed an array theory which offers a powerful set of operators and operations on nested arrays. We have written a program called Array Theory/370 (AT/370) which implements these array theoretic operations at the assembler-language level on an IBM/370. We have also written a VS APL auxiliary processor which enables the APL user to access AT/370 and to manipulate nested arrays. This paper describes the simple but powerful APL-AT/370 interface and illustrates how the interface was used to build an interactive array-theoretic system.