Editing APL (programming language) (section)

=== Microcomputers ===
On microcomputers, which became available from the mid-1970s onwards, [[BASIC]] became the dominant programming language.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://time.com/69316/basic/|title=Fifty Years of BASIC, the Programming Language That Made Computers Personal|date=April 29, 2014|magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |access-date=April 29, 2018}}</ref> Nevertheless, some microcomputers provided APL instead – the first being the [[Intel 8008]]-based [[MCM/70]] which was released in 1974<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=346 |title=MCM Computers M70/M700|website=old-computers.com|access-date=April 8, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180403063223/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=346|archive-date=April 3, 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Stachniak|first1=Stachniak |date=2011|title=Inventing the PC: The MCM/70 Story|publisher=McGill Queens's University Press |isbn=978-0-7735-3852-8|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cyWOA2FED7EC}}</ref> and which was primarily used in education.<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Miller |first1=Michael |date=December 17, 2014 |title=PCs That Paved the Way for the Altair |url=http://uk.pcmag.com/opinion/38348/opinion/pcs-that-paved-the-way-for-the-altair |magazine=[[PC Magazine]]|publisher=Ziff Davis |access-date=April 29, 2018}}</ref> Another machine of this time was the [[VideoBrain Family Computer]], released in 1977, which was supplied with its dialect of APL called APL/S.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=OQEAAAAAMBAJ&q=videobrain+family+computer+apl%2Fs&pg=PA133/s "VideoBrain Family Computer"], ''[[Popular Science]]'', November 1978, advertisement.</ref>

The [[Commodore SuperPET]], introduced in 1981, included an APL interpreter developed by the [[University of Waterloo]].<ref>{{cite magazine |date=December 1981 |title=A Look at SuperPet |url=https://archive.org/stream/1981-12-compute-magazine/Compute_Issue_019_1981_Dec#page/n131/mode/2up |magazine=[[Compute!]] |publisher=Small System Services Inc |access-date=April 29, 2018}}</ref>

In 1976, Bill Gates claimed in his [[Open Letter to Hobbyists]] that [[Microsoft Corporation]] was implementing APL for the [[Intel 8080]] and [[Motorola 6800]] but had "very little incentive to make [it] available to hobbyists" because of [[software piracy]].<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Gates |first1=Bill |date=January 31, 1976 |title=An Open Letter to Hobbyists |magazine=[[Homebrew Computer Club]] Newsletter |url=http://www.digibarn.com/collections/newsletters/homebrew/V2_01/index.html |access-date=April 29, 2018}}</ref> It was never released.