From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: dave at horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall)
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2019 08:17:56 +1100 (EST)
Subject: [COFF] Happy birthday, Ken Iverson!
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.1912170811001.963@aneurin.horsfall.org>

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