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, there was also a version available for DOS that was slightly simpler than the other offerings.

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
• APL2 for DOS demo

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