[COFF] In Memoriam: Jay W. Forrester, happy birthday Gene Amdahl, and LSD

[Peter Jeremy]

On 2019-Nov-18 10:45:13 -0800, Bakul Shah <bakul at bitblocks.com> wrote:
>Are you guys talking about “A formal description of System/360” by
>Falkoff, Iverson and Sussenguth? It uses an APL like notation but not
>exactly a S/360 emulator in APL! Much more concise than the S/360 POP.
>
>http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~jhowland/class.files.cs2321.html/falkoff.pdf

I was referring to exactly that but didn't have the reference handy.
Note that it's not "an APL like notation", it's the APL defined by Ken
Iverson in "A Programming Language"[1].  And, no-one said it was an
"emulator".

[1] http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/apl/Books/APROGRAMMING%20LANGUAGE

-- 
Peter Jeremy
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 963 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/coff/attachments/20191120/63272abc/attachment.sig>