[Home]History of APL programming language

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Revision 5 . . (edit) November 8, 2001 4:49 am by (logged).73.12.xxx [*Kenneth Iverson did his work at Harvard, not Stanford]
Revision 4 . . October 28, 2001 3:10 pm by KeithWaclena [Added mention of J programming language]
Revision 3 . . (edit) September 13, 2001 6:51 pm by (logged).186.10.xxx [wikify; anyone else finding the the page title odd?]
  
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The APL (A Programming Language) language was invented in 1962 by [Kenneth Iverson]? while at Stanford University. Iverson received the Turing Award in 1980 for his work.
The APL (A Programming Language) language was invented in 1962 by [Kenneth Iverson]? while at Harvard University. Iverson received the Turing Award in 1980 for his work.

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Iverson designed a successor to APL called J? which
uses ASCII "natively". So far there is a sole single source of J implementations: http://www.jsoftware.com/


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perl -le '$_ = 1; (1 x $_) !~ /^(11+)\1+$/ && print while $_++'
perl -le '$_ = 1; (1 x $_) !~ /^(11+)\1+$/ && print while $_++'
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