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From: jnk@faron.UUCP (John N. Kemeny)
Newsgroups: net.lang
Subject: Re: AHPL
Message-ID: <644@faron.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 10-Sep-86 14:01:17 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 10 14:01:17 1986
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Keywords: AHPL

In article <598@ukecc.UUCP> beech@ukecc.UUCP (Wayne Beech) writes:
>
>Does anyone have any information on the language AHPL.  I am particularly
>interested in a precise definition of the language.  I am having trouble
>locating one.
>

I believe AHPL was introduced as a teaching language in the book "Digital 
Systems: Hardware Organization and Design" by F.J. Hill and G.R. Peterson.
(Published by John Wiley & Sons, 1973.  ISBN 0-471-39605-2.)
It is based, of course, on Ken Iverson's _A_Programming_Language_, but only
a part of APL has application as hardware operations.  In addition, Hill and
Peterson add a few conventions and restrictions to APL in forming AHPL.  The
language may have been standardized by some committee later on (IEEE, NBS?).