The whole document is a book with 231 pages, many dense with formulas and diagrams in a mix of Iverson notation and APL.
Take a look at Appendix D. It gives you an idea of the difficulty of retyping the whole thing. http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Doc/Elementary_Functions_An_Algorithmic_Treatment#summary_of_notation ----- Original Message ----- From: Fraser Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Friday, July 18, 2008 20:34 Subject: Re: [Jchat] right to/of left -- what about left to right? To: Chat forum <[email protected]> > My reaction to Roger's post was - we should have the whole of > the document > on the web. > So I would really encourage you to continue with retyping it > into the Wiki. > Fraser > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Joey K Tuttle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Chat forum" <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, July 19, 2008 2:12 PM > Subject: Re: [Jchat] right to/of left -- what about left to right? > > > > 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
