MicroAPL announces the commercial release of APLX Version 4 for Windows and MacOS. APLX Version 4 for Linux is now also available, as a public beta. APLX Server Editions, and 64-bit implementations, will follow in Q1 2008.
You can download free-of-charge evaluation copies of APLX Version 4 from the MicroAPL website http://www.microapl.co.uk/apl. You are also invited to visit our website to take part in the APLX for Linux public beta program.
This is a quick summary of the features introduced in Version 4 (see http://www.microapl.co.uk/apl/aplx_new_40.html for further details):
Major Language Enhancements
- Support for object-oriented programming with user-defined APL
classes.
- Support for object-oriented programming using external classes
written in the .Net languages (such as C# and Visual Basic), Java, and Ruby, using natural dot-notation syntax.
- Extensible interface for other object-oriented languages such as C+
+.
- A range of new System Functions and System Methods to use with
classes written in APL or in other languages.
- New system functions for import and export of data in a variety of
formats including CSV, TSV, HTML, SYLK, and Unicode UCF-8 or UCF-16 text.
- Regular-expression searching.
- Structured-Control Error Handling
using :Try :CatchIf :CatchAll :EndTry.
- Zilde (empty numeric vector) system constant.
User-interface enhancements
- New QuickSym input method for entering APL symbols without a
special APL keyboard layout (see summary athttp://www.microapl.co.uk/apl/aplx_quicksym.html) .
- Powerful new general-array editor allows editing of almost any
simple, mixed or nested array, and of the properties of APL objects.
- New class editor for writing user-defined APL classes.
- Copy/Paste of arrays in various formats for exchange with Excel
and other applications.
- Enhancements to Workspace Explorer and Edit windows to support
class methods and properties.
- New workspace-search feature for rapid search or search-and-
replace of a string (or regular expression) in the workspace.
Performance Enhancements
- Major speed-ups to most string searches.
- Major speed-up to outer product using the Match primitive.
- Many primitives enhanced for faster operation on large arrays.
The MicroAPL Team
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