[TUHS] RIP Ken Iverson

[TUHS] RIP Ken Iverson

[Dave Horsfall]

Loved or loathed for inventing APL, we lost him in 2004.  The best thing 
you can say about APL (I used APL\360) is that it's, err, concise...

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

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[Gilbert Morgan]

RIP. I also meant to acknowledge D. Ritchie some days back as well.

<quote who="Dave Horsfall">
> Loved or loathed for inventing APL, we lost him in 2004.  The best thing
> you can say about APL (I used APL\360) is that it's, err, concise...
>
> --
> Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU)  "Those who don't understand security will
> suffer."
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[Doug McIlroy]

Quiz for the occasion: which major Unix utility adopted IPL's
unprecedented expression syntax?

doug

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[Dan Cross]

troff.

I suppose, in a sense, that 'dc' also fits the bill but given that that is
inherent in it's stack based nature, I doubt that is what you meant.

On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 8:20 AM, Doug McIlroy <doug at cs.dartmouth.edu> wrote:

>
> Quiz for the occasion: which major Unix utility adopted IPL's
> unprecedented expression syntax?
>
> doug
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[Dan Cross]

(Also, the 7th edition assembler, which was [is?] implicitly a major
utility, if seldom invoked by itself.)

On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 9:32 AM, Dan Cross <crossd at gmail.com> wrote:

> troff.
>
> I suppose, in a sense, that 'dc' also fits the bill but given that that is
> inherent in it's stack based nature, I doubt that is what you meant.
>
> On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 8:20 AM, Doug McIlroy <doug at cs.dartmouth.edu>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> Quiz for the occasion: which major Unix utility adopted IPL's
>> unprecedented expression syntax?
>>
>> doug
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[Doug McIlroy]

Dan,

I wrote:
Quiz for the occasion: which major Unix utility adopted IPL's
unprecedented expression syntax?

You correctly responded:
troff.
I suppose, in a sense, that 'dc' also fits the bill but given that that is
inherent in it's stack based nature, I doubt that is what you meant.

The notion of precedence pertains specifically to infix notation, so
postfix dc is definitely not in the running.
Idle thought about my typo: Though APL is famously inscrutable, IPL
(specifically IPL-V) outshined it in that department.

Doug