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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.
History
Soliton was formed in 1993 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada 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 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
Kenneth E. Iverson
Eugene McDonnell
External links
APL programming language - Chronology