[TUHS] OT: Happy birthday, Ken Iverson!

Dave Horsfall dave at horsfall.org
Thu Dec 17 15:12:14 AEST 2015


Ken Iverson was born in 1920; he is (in)famous for inventing APL.  And if 
you haven't used APL\360 on a dumb Kleinschmidt[*] terminal, you didn't 
miss anything.

[*]
And that's the first time I've seen a spell-checker suggest that it be 
replaced with "Consummated".

-- 
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU)  "Those who don't understand security will suffer."



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