Kenneth E. IversonThis is a discussion on Kenneth E. Iverson within the APL forums in Programming Languages category; Roger Hui has posted an autobiographical essay by Ken Iverson on the J Wiki: http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Essay...eth_E._Iverson Ken and Donald McIntyre worked on what was to be "The Story of APL & J" in 2004 through a series of e-mail messages, with the last e-mail from Ken coming in the morning of Saturday, 2004-10-16. Now Donald feels that he is unable to continue work on "The Story of APL & J" due to his poor health . What remains is an autobiographical sketch of Ken. Donald emphasizes that the text is in Ken's own words. Stephen Taylor editor@vector.org.uk http://www.vector.org.uk http://aplwiki.aplteam.com... | ||||||||
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07-18-2008, 07:29 AM
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 Kenneth E. Iverson Roger Hui has posted an autobiographical essay by Ken Iverson on the J Wiki: http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Essay...eth_E._Iverson Ken and Donald McIntyre worked on what was to be "The Story of APL & J" in 2004 through a series of e-mail messages, with the last e-mail from Ken coming in the morning of Saturday, 2004-10-16. Now Donald feels that he is unable to continue work on "The Story of APL & J" due to his poor health . What remains is an autobiographical sketch of Ken. Donald emphasizes that the text is in Ken's own words. Stephen Taylor editor@vector.org.uk http://www.vector.org.uk http://aplwiki.aplteam.com  |
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07-19-2008, 04:18 AM
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| Re: Kenneth E. Iverson On Jul 18, 12:29 pm, "Stephen Taylor <edi...@vector.org.uk>" <StephenTaylorF...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Roger Hui has posted an autobiographical essay by Ken Iverson on the J > Wiki: > > http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Essay...eth_E._Iverson > A very enjoyable read (having palmed off the kids for 10 minutes!) Mark |
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07-25-2008, 02:10 AM
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| Re: Kenneth E. Iverson On Jul 18, 5:29*am, "Stephen Taylor <edi...@vector.org.uk>" <StephenTaylorF...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Roger Hui has posted an autobiographical essay by Ken Iverson on the J > Wiki: > > http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Essay...eth_E._Iverson > > Ken and Donald McIntyre worked on what was to be > "The Story of APL & J" in 2004 through a series of > e-mail messages, with the last e-mail from Ken coming > in the morning of Saturday, 2004-10-16. > Now Donald feels that he is unable to continue work on > "The Story of APL & J" due to his poor health . > What remains is an autobiographical sketch of Ken. > Donald emphasizes that the text is in Ken's own words. > > Stephen Taylor > edi...@vector.org.uk > > http://www.vector.org.ukhttp://aplwiki.aplteam.com Thanks much for this post. This is a very enlightening read. I too attended a one-room school as a child, and I appreciate Ken's ironic use of "progress" to describe its demise. |
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