On Thursday 19 May 2005 20:42, Andrew Rodland wrote: > On Thursday 19 May 2005 10:51 pm, Sam Vilain wrote: > > Edward Cherlin wrote: > > > Here is the last answer from Ken Iverson, who invented > > > reduce in the 1950s, and died recently. > > > file:///usr/share/j504/system/extras/help/dictionary/intro > > >28.htm > > > > [snip] > > > > Thanks for bringing in a little history to the discussion. > > Those links are all local to your system; do you have > > internet reachable versions of them? > > These seem to be the original sources: > > http://www.jsoftware.com/books/help/dictionary/intro28.htm > http://www.jsoftware.com/books/help/dictionary/d420.htm > > and so on. Front page is at > http://www.jsoftware.com/books/help/dictionary/title.htm . I > still haven't figured out what "J" is though.
It's an enhanced APL without the funny characters. -- Edward Cherlin Generalist & activist--Linux, languages, literacy and more "A knot! Oh, do let me help to undo it!" --Alice in Wonderland http://cherlin.blogspot.com
