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> to add funtional programming, hook and fork, easier tacit programming and fix certain other issues that even Ken Iverson himself acknowledged Whitney and Iv
by beagle3 11y ago
> to add funtional programming, hook and fork, easier tacit programming and fix certain other issues that even Ken Iverson himself acknowledged
Whitney and Iverson disagreed about a lot of these things - e.g. Whitney prefers scan and fold to go left-to-right, rather than Iverson's right-to-left. Iverson is consistent with the rest of the language, Whitney is not (though much more practical). Also, Iverson added hook and fork; Whitney preferred the much simpler multi-monadic or dyadic-multi-monadic juxtaposition.
I don't remember where I read this, but I do remember reading Iverson conceding that Whitney's practical approach is probably a better idea than his own pure approach.