diff --git a/pkgs/development/interpreters/gnu-apl/default.nix b/pkgs/development/interpreters/gnu-apl/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..8600d17f3665
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/interpreters/gnu-apl/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, liblapack, readline, gettext, ncurses }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "gnu-apl-${version}";
+  version = "1.4";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://gnu/apl/apl-${version}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "0fl9l4jb5wpnb54kqkphavi657z1cv15h9qj2rqy2shf33dk3nk9";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = [ liblapack readline gettext ncurses ];
+
+  postInstall = ''
+    cp -r support-files/ $out/share/doc/
+    find $out/share/doc/support-files -name 'Makefile*' -delete
+  '';
+
+  meta = {
+    description = "Free interpreter for the APL programming language.";
+    homepage    = http://www.gnu.org/software/apl/;
+    license     = stdenv.lib.licenses.gpl3Plus;
+    maintainers = with stdenv.lib.maintainers; [ kovirobi ];
+    platforms   = stdenv.lib.platforms.linux;
+
+    longDescription = ''
+      GNU APL is a free interpreter for the programming language APL, with an
+      (almost) complete implementation of ISO standard 13751 aka.  Programming
+      Language APL, Extended.  GNU APL was written and is being maintained by
+      Jürgen Sauermann.
+    '';
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index f88a6000d823..44c3b627e9e3 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -1423,6 +1423,8 @@ let
     inherit (xorg) libXpm;
   };
 
+  gnuapl = callPackage ../development/interpreters/gnu-apl { };
+
   gnufdisk = callPackage ../tools/system/fdisk {
     guile = guile_1_8;
   };