APL: The language and its usage (Prentice-Hall series in automatic computation)

APL: The language and its usage (Prentice-Hall series in automatic computation) by Raymond Polivka. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780130388858.

This complete and comprehensive presentation of APL based on APL.SV offers a versatile problem-solving tool for engineers, scientists, businessmen, and others who use computers interactively. The coverage includes chapters devoted to a discussion of basic APL, function definition, the shape of data, elementary functions, extensions of the scalar dyadic functions to arrays and other array-handling capabilities, additional techniques and capabilities of defining functions, data selection and rearrangement, communications with the APL.SV supporting system, and APL.SV data communications.