At 15:09 -0700 2008/07/18, Roger Hui wrote:
http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Doc/Elementary_Functions_An_Algorithmic_Treatment#evaluation_order
by Ken Iverson, 1966.
Bravo! I recently borrowed a copy of "Elementary Functions ..." from
Eugene McDonnell (because my own copy is squirreled away in a box
somewhere - sigh) and made copies of Appendix A that you have
provided in scanned form. My idea was to retype that into the wiki
with TeX for the formulas and perhaps I'll continue to do that as a
more flexible form of the material.
I think it is worth noting that the March 1, 1966 date that Ken wrote
the foreword is well before the first/any working version of APL\360
and the APL notation in the book is from the earlier 7090 work at
Stanford. The examples look a bit clumsy because of things which have
evolved such as being able to enter a vector like 1 2 3 instead of
1,2,3 but the whole book is a good look at early thinking going in to
evolving from a notation to a working interpreter.
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