apl

apl — noun

1. a high-level computer programming language that uses special mathematical symbol

1.名詞C2
釋義

a high-level computer programming language that uses special mathematical symbols and extremely concise notation, allowing complex operations to be expressed in just a few characters

例句

Piotr wrote a short APL program to sort the company's sales data.

collocation: APL program

For Noor, learning APL made complex math problems much easier to express.

APL for expressing mathematical operations concisely

用法筆記

APL is almost never used with an article (not 'the APL' or 'an APL'). Programs written in APL are famously terse — a single line can do what takes dozens of lines in other languages — but the heavy use of non-standard symbols makes APL code hard to read without training.

常見錯誤

❌APL stands for Applied Programming Logic.
✅APL originally stands for A Programming Language.
💡the name is literal; it is not an abbreviation of multiple terms.
❌I wrote the app in Apple.
✅I wrote the app in APL.
💡APL is a programming language and has no connection to the Apple company.