Copied from comp.lang.apl Btw, I got the link without paying. Very interesting reading. Richard Hill
Bryan Cantrill, "Interview - A Conversation with Arthur Whitney", ACM Queue vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 12- 19 (Feb/Mar 2009) http://mags.acm.org/queue/20090203/ may require ACM membership or institutional subscription. http://queue.acm.org The interview discusses Arthur Whitney's boyhood introduction to APL and its possible influcence on A, A+, K and Q. Arthur mentions Roger Hui and J and thinking in Cantonese and poetry, but does not mention writing the very first preliminary implementation of J. Bryan Cantrill, "Interview - A Conversation with Arthur Whitney", ACM Queue vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 12- 19 (Feb/Mar 2009) http://mags.acm.org/queue/20090203/ may require ACM membership or institutional subscription. http://queue.acm.org The interview discusses Arthur Whitney's boyhood introduction to APL and its possible influcence on A, A+, K and Q. Arthur mentions Roger Hui and J and thinking in Cantonese and poetry, but does not mention writing the very first preliminary implementation of J. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
