The Origins of APL (1974) [video]

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28 points | by ofalkaed 6 days ago

3 comments

ofalkaed 1 minute ago
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
jibal 2 hours ago
9-track tape drives, drum disks, rectangular switches and lights, IBM "THINK" logo, fast card readers ... all bring back many personal memories.
bch 3 hours ago
In the intro I liked the precursors to the IBM "Thinkpad" name.
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- ofalkaed 3 hours ago
  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)