APL (programming language)

APL - functional, symbolic programming language for operating on multidimensional arrays. This programming language is the 78^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of programming languages and the 66^th most popular programming language in English Wikipedia. Article "APL (programming language)" in English Wikipedia has 88.7 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024). The article contains 165 references and 39 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that language version.

In July 2024 the article "APL (programming language)" was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 3 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "APL (programming language)", its content was written by 443 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1269 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

APL is on the 66^th place in local ranking of programming languages in English Wikipedia and on the 78^th place in global ranking of programming languages in all the time.

The article is cited 458 times in English Wikipedia and cited 3003 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #806 in August 2003
• Global: #393 in August 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #19287 in September 2018
• Global: #38426 in September 2018

There are 37 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from August 1, 2024 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) APL (programming language)		88.6997
2	Hebrew (he) APL		84.6154
3	French (fr) APL (langage)		69.436
4	Catalan (ca) APL		49.6451
5	Portuguese (pt) APL (linguagem de programação)		46.6212
6	German (de) APL (Programmiersprache)		46.2427
7	Ukrainian (uk) APL		39.5061
8	Dutch (nl) APL (programmeertaal)		34.6679
9	Serbian (sr) APL (programski jezik)		32.6396
10	Latin (la) APL		29.3067

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "APL (programming language)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) APL (programming language)		2 941 542
2	Japanese (ja) APL		227 698
3	Spanish (es) APL		184 836
4	Russian (ru) APL (язык программирования)		182 503
5	German (de) APL (Programmiersprache)		157 453
6	French (fr) APL (langage)		138 954
7	Portuguese (pt) APL (linguagem de programação)		63 345
8	Italian (it) APL		56 475
9	Chinese (zh) APL語言		55 830
10	Polish (pl) APL (język programowania)		48 945

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "APL (programming language)" in July 2024

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) APL (programming language)		10 077
2	Japanese (ja) APL		658
3	German (de) APL (Programmiersprache)		546
4	Russian (ru) APL (язык программирования)		543
5	French (fr) APL (langage)		318
6	Hebrew (he) APL		318
7	Chinese (zh) APL語言		232
8	Spanish (es) APL		222
9	Italian (it) APL		187
10	Portuguese (pt) APL (linguagem de programação)		119

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "APL (programming language)" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) APL (programming language)		443
2	French (fr) APL (langage)		114
3	German (de) APL (Programmiersprache)		108
4	Spanish (es) APL		83
5	Dutch (nl) APL (programmeertaal)		52
6	Russian (ru) APL (язык программирования)		48
7	Italian (it) APL		46
8	Danish (da) APL (programmeringssprog)		36
9	Japanese (ja) APL		35
10	Finnish (fi) APL (ohjelmointikieli)		26

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "APL (programming language)" with the highest AI in July 2024

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) APL (programming language)		3
2	Arabic (ar) إيه بي إل (لغة برمجة)		0
3	Azerbaijani (az) APL (proqramlaşdırma dili)		0
4	Belarusian (be) АПЛ (мова праграмавання)		0
5	Bulgarian (bg) APL		0
6	Catalan (ca) APL		0
7	Czech (cs) APL (programovací jazyk)		0
8	Danish (da) APL (programmeringssprog)		0
9	German (de) APL (Programmiersprache)		0
10	Esperanto (eo) APL		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "APL (programming language)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) APL (programming language)		458
2	Russian (ru) APL (язык программирования)		239
3	Chinese (zh) APL語言		234
4	French (fr) APL (langage)		197
5	Ukrainian (uk) APL		190
6	Polish (pl) APL (język programowania)		176
7	Norwegian (no) APL (programmeringsspråk)		151
8	Japanese (ja) APL		149
9	Czech (cs) APL (programovací jazyk)		128
10	Italian (it) APL		107

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic إيه بي إل (لغة برمجة)
az	Azerbaijani APL (proqramlaşdırma dili)
be	Belarusian АПЛ (мова праграмавання)
bg	Bulgarian APL
ca	Catalan APL
cs	Czech APL (programovací jazyk)
da	Danish APL (programmeringssprog)
de	German APL (Programmiersprache)
en	English APL (programming language)
eo	Esperanto APL
es	Spanish APL
et	Estonian APL
fa	Persian ای‌پی‌ال
fi	Finnish APL (ohjelmointikieli)
fr	French APL (langage)
gl	Galician APL
he	Hebrew APL
hu	Hungarian APL
it	Italian APL
ja	Japanese APL
ko	Korean APL (프로그래밍 언어)
la	Latin APL
ms	Malay APL
nl	Dutch APL (programmeertaal)
no	Norwegian APL (programmeringsspråk)
pl	Polish APL (język programowania)
pt	Portuguese APL (linguagem de programação)
ro	Romanian APL
ru	Russian APL (язык программирования)
sh	Serbo-Croatian APL (programski jezik)
sk	Slovak APL (programovací jazyk)
sr	Serbian APL (programski jezik)
sv	Swedish APL (programspråk)
tr	Turkish APL (programlama dili)
uk	Ukrainian APL
vi	Vietnamese APL (ngôn ngữ lập trình)
zh	Chinese APL語言

Best Rank

English: #19287 09.2018

Global: #38426 09.2018

Best Rank

English: #806 08.2003

Global: #393 08.2003

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