The Origins of APL (1974) [video]

ofalkaed a minute ago | parent | next [-]

This submission popping back up from the second chance pool got me to some digging for the formal description of system/360[0], this is not the APL we know today but the APL outlined in Iverson's A Programming Language[1].

[0] https://www.cs.trinity.edu/~jhowland/class.files.cs2321.html...

[1] https://www.jsoftware.com/papers/APL.htm

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jibal 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

9-track tape drives, drum disks, rectangular switches and lights, IBM "THINK" logo, fast card readers ... all bring back many personal memories.

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bch 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

In the intro I liked the precursors to the IBM "Thinkpad" name.

	▲	ofalkaed 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Yeah, I never knew that bit of history (probably did and just forgot it) and dug into it some after watching this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_(slogan)