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Kenneth E Iverson, the inventor of APL was truly a genius and his primary mission was about how to bridge the world of computing and mathematics. To do this h
by max_ 3y ago
Kenneth E Iverson, the inventor of APL was truly a genius and his primary mission was about how to bridge the world of computing and mathematics.
To do this he invented the APL notation.
If you find the article interesting, you might enjoy my curation of his work "Math For The Layman" [0] where he introduces several math topics using this "Iversonian" thinking.
[1] Look this up to install the J interpreter.
[0]: https://asindu.xyz/math-for-the-lay-man/ https://asindu.xyz/math-for-the-lay-man/
[1]: https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/System/Installation/J9.4/Zips https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/System/Installation/J9.4/Zip...
- gtani 3y agoThanks ex-APL2 coder here, will look up For Layman site later. My favorite APL story was somebody from morning yoga practice who grew up close to Yorktown Heights, in high school, his parents got him a job writing code for Iverson, which he described as a lot of fun. It could have been a good career choice at one point, given how many FTE's were devoted to the language at Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, Lehman etc but I took the other fork