APL2

A development system from IBM that aimed to combine all their previous and diverse APL offerings into one coherent product line. Initially only available for OS/2 but eventually was available for all mini and mainframe operating systems from IBM in addition to Microsoft Windows and most Unix platforms as well.

IBM still offers APL2 but now only in versions for the various mainframe/zSeries, AIX, Solaris, x86/AMD64 Linux and MS Windows.

Version

• Advanced version 1.0
• Entry edition

Links

• IBM APL Entry Edition Download
• Mensys Shop - APL2
• IBM's APL2 page - Product page for the current APL2 offering, no longer any OS/2 info on there, but some useful tidbits can be found if you rummage around.
• APL & APL2 typeface in TrueType and Adobe formats (OS/2 APL2 typefaces shipped only in Adobe format)
• An archive of APL related templates and files
• IBM's FTP site for APL2 - Demos, fixes, and information

Publications

• A review of IBM's APL2 for OS/2 (entry ed.) - APL Qoute Quad, Volume 25 Issue 3, March 1995 - Pages 17 - 22

Tutorials

• Zdeněk V. Jizba: TEACH0 APL/2 for OS/2 Tutorial, also available in a web format here with some additional material.

Licence

Commercial Software. Discontinued. - Advanced edition still available from Mensys in Jan 2015

Author

• IBM