In a previous paper, Halstead's theory was applied to first generation APL. Those implementations only support simple arrays (APL/SA). In this paper we extend the application of Halstead's theory to second generation APL; the main difference being that those implementations support arrays of arrays or nested arrays (APL/NA). In both investigations, Halstead's theory had to be adjusted in order to account for the fact that in APL operations may be functions or operators. It is shown that the language level increases from 3.07 for APL/SA to 3.62 for APL/NA This means that language efficiency of APL versus assembler raises from about 12 for APL/SA to nearly 17 for APL/NA.
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