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Notation as a Tool of Thought ... Ken Iveson's (IvesEn, spell?) Touring Award Address I think he was the third guy to get one. it was all about how folks thin
by tclviii-hn 17y ago
Notation as a Tool of Thought ... Ken Iveson's (IvesEn, spell?) Touring Award Address
I think he was the third guy to get one.
it was all about how folks think in code
- gjm11 17y agoSince you ask: Iverson. (And Turing.) And, as it happens, he got the 14th Turing award and was the 16th person to get one (because two earlier ones were shared).
- silentbicycle 17y agoThe transcript is here: http://www.jsoftware.com/papers/tot.htm http://www.jsoftware.com/papers/tot.htm Iverson is probably best known for the APL family of languages (APL, J, K, A+, others), which use an extremely terse notation for bulk vector operations. Very interesting, though thus far I've just dabbled in J (http://www.jsoftware.com/ http://www.jsoftware.com/).