Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Soliton Incorporated was a company formed in 1993 to continue the support and development of Sharp APL, originally developed by I. P. Sharp Associates, and other related products and services.Soliton Incorporated was formed in 1993 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada with some of the former employees of I. P. Sharp Associates. The business was in some ways a continuation of I. P. Sharp Associates, which was purchased by Reuters in 1987. Reuters was primarily interested in Sharp''s historical databases, and allowed some portions of the business to buy themselves out from Reuters. The company started with Clarke Bruce as its president.