About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 73. Chapters: Command shells, Text-based web browsers, Video games with textual graphics, APL, COMMAND.COM, Zork, Hunt the Wumpus, Links, Lynx, W3m, Tcsh, Rogue, Conversational Monitor System, 4DOS, Windows PowerShell, REXX, Comparison of command shells, Colossal Cave Adventure, Line Mode Browser, Classic Empire, Star Trek, Online text-based role-playing game, AS/400 Control Language, Read-eval-print loop, List of text-based computer games, Macintosh Programmer's Workshop, Federation II, Beast, Mathomatic, Space, Decwar, PARI/GP, DIGITAL Command Language, Kroz series, Trek73, ISPF, Command Prompt, BASIC-PLUS, CANDE, ELinks, Take Command Console, Dungeon, Recovery Console, Robotfindskitten, DOS Wedge, Scsh, Baseball, Castle Adventure, Snipes, Restricted shell, Dynamic debugging technique, Video Trek 88, Civil War, Apple Trek, Aston shell, Command-line argument parsing, Vnmr, ISeries QSHELL, Emacs/W3, Shell builtin, WebbIE, Secrets of War, ALynx, Interpreter directive, Ftype, Air, Net-Tamer, Shell for Windows, Quantum Space. Excerpt: APL (named after the book A Programming Language) is an interactive array-oriented language and integrated development environment which is available from a number of commercial and non-commercial vendors and for most computer platforms. It is based on a mathematical notation developed by Kenneth E. Iverson and associates which features special attributes for the design and specifications of digital computing systems, both hardware and software. APL has a combination of unique and relatively uncommon features that appeal to programmers and make it a productive programming language: APL is used in scientific, actuarial, statistical, and financial applications where it is used by practitioners for their own work and by programmers to develop commercial applications. It was an important influence on the d...
