Editing Nial (section)

{{Short description|Programming language}}
{{for multi|the village in Iran|Nial, Iran|the given name|Niall}}
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{{Infobox programming language
|name                   = Nial
|logo                   = [[File:NialLogo.jpg]]
|paradigm               = [[array programming|array]]
|year                   = 1981
|designer               = Mike Jenkins
|developer              = Nial Systems Ltd
|latest release version = 7.0
|latest release date    = {{release date and age|2017}}
|typing                 = [[dynamic typing|dynamic]]
|implementations        = Q'Nial
|dialects               = 
|influenced_by          = [[APL programming language|APL]], [[Lisp programming language|Lisp]] 
|influenced             = 
|file ext               = .ndf, .nlg
|license                = [[GNU GPLv3]]
|website                = {{URL|https://www.nial-array-language.org/}}
}}

'''Nial''' (from "Nested Interactive Array Language") is a high-level [[array programming]] language developed from about 1981 by Mike Jenkins of [[Queen's University at Kingston|Queen's University]], [[Kingston, Ontario]], Canada.  Jenkins co-created the [[Jenkins–Traub algorithm]].

Nial combines a functional programming notation for arrays based on an array theory developed by [[Trenchard More]] with structured programming concepts for numeric, character, and symbolic data.

It is most often used for prototyping and [[artificial intelligence]].