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Remember that the FinnAPL library expects that you know your APL environment and are able to adapt the idioms to suit. You should also consider "Notation as a
by arcfide 10y ago
Remember that the FinnAPL library expects that you know your APL environment and are able to adapt the idioms to suit.
You should also consider "Notation as a Tool of Thought" by Kenneth Iverson (his Turing Award lecture) to be required reading.
- jarpineh 10y agoI think it's this: http://www.jsoftware.com/papers/tot.htm http://www.jsoftware.com/papers/tot.htm I thought I had read it at some point, but now it doesn't ring a bell. Well, it's on the list now. It starts with Babbage quote and uses phrase "tool of thought" which coincides early computer history books I've been reading.
- arcfide 10y agoYes, that would be the one.