From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: peter at rulingia.com (Peter Jeremy) Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2019 07:21:01 +1100 Subject: [COFF] In Memoriam: Jay W. Forrester, happy birthday Gene Amdahl, and LSD In-Reply-To: <9FA0B3E9-0E66-4724-BF6C-AF60EF5EE784@bitblocks.com> References: <9FA0B3E9-0E66-4724-BF6C-AF60EF5EE784@bitblocks.com> Message-ID: <20191119202101.GF74610@server.rulingia.com> On 2019-Nov-18 10:45:13 -0800, Bakul Shah 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: