Nial

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Nial

Paradigm	array
Designed by	Mike Jenkins
Developer	Nial Systems Ltd
First appeared	1981
Stable release	7.0 / 2017; 7 years ago (2017)
Typing discipline	dynamic
License	GNU GPLv3
Filename extensions	.ndf, .nlg
Website	www.nial-array-language.org
Major implementations
Q'Nial
Influenced by
APL, Lisp

Nial (from "Nested Interactive Array Language") is a high-level array programming language developed from about 1981 by Mike Jenkins of 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.