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Friday 19 April 2024 02:21 UTC Welcome To The NARS2000 Project

Welcome to the NARS2000 wiki. This wiki proposes to create an on-line reference for the APL Programming Language (this is a link to the article on Wikipedia) as implemented by NARS2000.

Getting Started

• Introduction to APL
• The language toolbar
• Keyboard - What keys are mapped to what symbols
• APL Font
• Platforms: Windows, Linux, Mac OS
• APL Wiki Tutorial
• Character names
• Error codes
• Examples

Compatibility With Extended APL Standard

NARS2000 is compatible with the Extended APL Standard (ISO-IEC 13751). There are many consistent extensions, and a few unimplemented but optional features.

• Consistent Extensions in NARS2000
• Optional Facilities Included in NARS2000
• Optional Facilities Missing from NARS2000

Detailed Documentation

• Language Features
• Control Structures
• User-Defined Functions/Operators
• Session Manager
• System Commands - These begin with ) and can only be entered from the keyboard
• System Variables - also known as "quad" ⎕ variables and quad functions
• Function Editing
• Customization
• Initialization and Workspace Files
• Known Limitations

Adding to the Wiki

• APL editing conventions for this wiki

Developer's Corner

• Developer's Notes
• Project Ideas
• Proposal To Extend .atf Files