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Kenneth E. Iverson Dead

Kenneth E. Iverson
KindPerson
Born1920
Died2004
StatusDead
Fieldprogramming languages
Sourcewww.jsoftware.com ↗

Invented APL — a mathematical notation that became a programming language — and later J, its ASCII descendant.

Worked at IBM
Created APL J

Wrote 'A Programming Language' (1962) — APL, a notation so compressed it reads like mathematics — and argued notation was a tool of thought, not just a way to program.\n\nTuring Award 1979 for exactly that thesis; J (with Hui) is APL's ASCII descendant.

Sources

  1. jsoftware.com/
  2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_E._Iverson