Soliton Incorporated is a Canadian company formed in 1993 to continue supporting and developing the programming language Sharp
APL, and related products and services, originally developed by Canadian company
I. P. Sharp Associates
I. P. Sharp Associates (IPSA) was a major Canadian computer time-sharing, consulting and services firm of the 1970s and 1980s. IPSA is well known for its work on the programming language APL, an early packet switching computer network named IPS ...
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History
Soliton was formed in 1993 in
Toronto
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Ontario
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Canada
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with Clarke Bruce as president, and with some of the former employees of I. P. Sharp Associates. The business was in some ways a continuation of parts of I. P. Sharp, which was bought by
Reuters Group
Reuters Group plc was a British multinational media and financial information company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It was acquired by the Thomson Corporation in 2008, forming Thomson Reuters, and moved its head office to Toronto.
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in 1987. Reuters was interested mainly in Sharp's historic databases, and allowed some parts of the business to buy themselves out from Reuters.
Timeline
* 1987 – I. P. Sharp Associates is bought by Reuters
* 1993 – Soliton Incorporated is founded
* 1997 – Soliton develops TimeSquare, a timeseries database with an SQL-like syntax
* 2006 – TimeSquare business sold to SunGard, becoming part of their referencePoint EDM business
See also
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Kenneth E. Iverson
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Eugene McDonnell
Eugene Edward McDonnell (October 18, 1926 – August 17, 2010) was a computer science pioneer and long-time contributor to the programming language siblings APL and J.
He was a graduate of Brooklyn Technical High School. After serving as an in ...
External links
APL programming language - Chronology
Technology companies of Canada
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