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C was invented at Bell Labs, which is in New Jersey. For Scala, the article even says, "although not created in Boston". And Logo and Scheme are dialects of L
by sandofsky 15y ago
C was invented at Bell Labs, which is in New Jersey.
For Scala, the article even says, "although not created in Boston".
And Logo and Scheme are dialects of Lisp.
My takeaway is that Boston is the home of LISP and APL.
- makmanalp 15y agoGoes well with the academic background, to be honest.
- jleader 15y agoWhile Iverson started the work that led to APL while at Harvard, It believe the language itself was implemented when he was working for IBM. I'm not sure where that was, but I suspect it was Armonk, New York, and not Boston (nor even Cambridge).
- woodrow 15y agoAnother one (not in the article): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLU_(programming_language) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLU_(programming_language)
- IdeaHamster 15y agoAlso worth noting that New Jersey is the only state to have a programming language named after it. Just saying...