I would say APL has always been compatible with the various vector/parallel machine languages. With the general but precise nature of APL expression, it should be easy to generically and efficiently parallelize/vectorize any APL interpreter for any machine architecture.
Is there much activity in marketing of current APL products? It seems like IBM is doing nothing more than supporting existing customers. Jim Brown and company established SmartArrays, which caters a specific C APL library to specific customers. MicroAPL seems to be diversifying into other areas, although they still update APLX periodically. I haven't seen much action on the open source front, although I have seen an open source APL project on Sourceforge.
Is there any chance that the emergence of parallel architectures will spur a resurgence of interest in APL?
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I would say APL has always been compatible with the various vector/parallel machine languages. With the general but precise nature of APL expression, it should be easy to generically and efficiently parallelize/vectorize any APL interpreter for any machine architecture. Is there much activity in marketing of current APL products? It seems like IBM is doing nothing more than supporting existing customers. Jim Brown and company established SmartArrays, which caters a specific C APL library to specific customers. MicroAPL seems to be diversifying into other areas, although they still update APLX periodically. I haven't seen much action on the open source front, although I have seen an open source APL project on Sourceforge. Is there any chance that the emergence of parallel architectures will spur a resurgence of interest in APL?