Roger Hui wrote:
> A digital version of Ken Iverson's seminal 1978 paper, 
> "Operators and Functions" is now available on-line:
> http://www.jsoftware.com/papers/opfns.htm

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

That research report was never available from IBM's online research 
papers site (although all of Ken Iverson's other major APL papers at 
IBM were available there*), and yet it's cited in very many subsequent 
papers about APL and the development of APL and J.  Trying to find it 
has been very frustrating for me until now.  (I was at the point of 
asking the forum if anyone could loan me a copy.)  Again, thank you 
very much for providing it!

Harvey

* I just discovered that IBM's research journals are no longer freely 
available online (as they used to be) but are available only at an 
institutional annual charge of $1,499, currently discounted to $995.  
(Of course, access to such databases, even at libraries, can be limited 
to students and faculty and may be unaccessible to "outsiders".)  I'm 
also no longer able to find Ken's non-journal technical writings at the 
IBM Research site, but maybe I don't know where to look now.  So much 
for any future independent/amateur researcher trying to find Ken's 
articles and papers at IBM!

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