From: peter at rulingia.com (Peter Jeremy)
Subject: [COFF] In Memoriam: Jay W. Forrester, happy birthday Gene Amdahl, and LSD
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2019 07:21:01 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191119202101.GF74610@server.rulingia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9FA0B3E9-0E66-4724-BF6C-AF60EF5EE784@bitblocks.com>
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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
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Peter Jeremy
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2019-11-15 21:54 dave
2019-11-15 22:26 ` krewat
2019-11-15 22:42 ` dave
2019-11-16 7:23 ` peter
2019-11-16 16:25 ` clemc
2019-11-17 5:14 ` dave
2019-11-18 16:42 ` clemc
2019-11-18 18:45 ` bakul
2019-11-18 19:19 ` clemc
2019-11-19 20:21 ` peter [this message]
2019-11-19 23:17 ` cym224
2019-11-21 19:48 ` dave
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2019-11-15 23:47 ` krewat
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