[COFF] Happy birthday, Ken Iverson!

Dave Horsfall dave at horsfall.org
Tue Dec 17 07:17:56 AEST 2019


Ken Iverson was given unto us in 1920; a pioneer in computer science, he gave 
us APL (actually not a bad language; it was, err, *concise* and grew on you 
after a while[*]) which was used to develop the microcode for the /360 series.

[*]
My brother (a car freak) knew that I was into computers, and wanted me to work 
out the final drive ratios of various gearbox and diff combinations etc.  I 
blew him away the next day with pages of output (he thought it would take me 
ages) generated with a one-line APL\360 program :-)

-- Dave


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