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Originally Posted by davidfor
When I was at university, a lecturer told a story of how APL came about:
An IBM scientist needed to do some linear programming and was frustrated with how long it took to write out. So he decided he needed language to express this easily. When he finished, he had a page with the notation for all the actions he needed. He wrote "A Programming Language" across the top of the page, and went to lunch. While he was away, someone came in, found the page and thought, "I'd better write a compiler for this."
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I think you're probably referring to
Ken Iverson. The Tech V&R thread in The Lounge has some recent posts referencing APL and its successors.
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Originally Posted by KevinH
Ths is from the people that used to ask the user to write jcl (job control language) just to submit a print job!
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Yes, the 'people' whose employees have probably won more Nobel prizes than any other commercial corporation and a good few well known universities
BR