Although "general availability" of version 13.0 is planned for "early 2011", we do have a pretty good idea of the features that will be in the new release - and have in fact completed most of the implementation. The main features of V13.0 are expected to be:
- Support for 128-bit Decimal Floating Point Numbers, aimed at supporting multi-currency banking applications which often require more precision that 64-bit Binary Floats can provide
- Support for Complex Numbers, for educational use and engineering applications
- In the 64-bit version, we will remove the existing limitation of 2 billion elements per array
- A Regular Expression operator, which is built upon the PCRE library, but allows the use of APL to specify how to perform replace operations
- An "Encryption Library", providing tools for Hashing, Symmetrical and Asymmetrical encryption
- In Conga v2.1, support for encrypted certificates and the Windows Certificate Store
We expect to start general "beta testing" before the conference; we will be demonstrating and discussing the new features at the conference, and plan to make a "conference edition" available to all conference participants.
In addition to Version 13.0, we expect to be discussing the design - and demonstrating prototypes - of:
- "APL#", a completely new APL system which targets object-oriented "application virtual machines" like the Microsoft.Net framework - for applications which need to run "within" (rather than inter-operating with) these frameworks.
- "RIDE", the Remote Integrated Development Environment, a common development tool and debugger which can run in a web browser (on just about any platform), connecting to Dyalog APL and APL#, wherever these are available
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