- Larry Breed, Richard Lathwell, and Roger Moore win the ACM Grace M. Hopper Award for the design and implementation of *APL\360*.
On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 4:00 PM, Roger Hui <[email protected]>wrote: > A partial list of suggestions: > > - *The Description of Finite Sequential Processes > <http://www.jsoftware.com/papers/DFSP.htm>,* 1960-08-29, is a > significant historical paper. It is the first known publication of the APL > ideas. > - Summer 1966: APL was named. > http://www.jsoftware.com/papers/APLQA.htm#APL > - 1966-11-27 15.53.58 (GMT-7) *APL\360* was born. > http://www.jsoftware.com/papers/APLQA.htm#APL_birthday > - I doubt that SHARP APL became available at IPSA in 1966. (See > previous item.) > - 666 box became available in 1972 and not 1971. See > http://www.jsoftware.com/papers/APLQA.htm#666box . > - 1973-08: first use of a portable computer by a passenger on an > airliner. It happens to be an APL computer. > http://www.jsoftware.com/papers/APLQA.htm#MCM1973 > - 1979-10-29: Kenneth E. Iverson wins Turing Award for the development > of APL. http://www.jsoftware.com/papers/tot.htm > > > > > On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 10:49 AM, Devon McCormick <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Hi - >> >> I've put up a preliminary draft of the APL chronology I've assembled with >> the help of many on this forum: >> http://www.sigapl.org/APLChronology.php >> .<http://www.sigapl.org/APLChronology.php> >> >> Anyone who's interested should please take a look and feel free to point >> out any errors or omissions. Also, any suggestions for presenting the >> information more elegantly are also welcome. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Devon >> -- >> Devon McCormick, CFA >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
