> (with their wives, so it was Ken & Jean and Eugene & Jeanne).
From Eugene McDonnell Quotations and Anecdotes <http://www.jsoftware.com/papers/eem/anecdotes.htm#genes> • When Eugene and Ken Iverson went on vacation together with their wives, it’s “Genes” all around: Gene McDonnell, Jeanne McDonnell, Kenneth Eugene Iverson, and Jean Iverson. — Joey Tuttle On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 6:06 PM, Rob Hodgkinson <[email protected]> wrote: > A (firsthand) background note here, that Ken & Eugene were flying together > to APL88 in Sydney > > (with their wives, so it was Ken & Jean and Eugene & Jeanne). > > They switched their seats and sat together and chatted and ended up having > little sleep for the 16 hours trans pacific flight. > Their discussions led to the epiphany (Ken’s word to me on landing) of > verb trains. > > I met him at the airport and he was (surprisingly) quite excited and alert > and excitedly started to describe how the verb trains for function > composition and showed me some paper of the simplicity of their concept. > I recall they had just focused on trains of length 2 (a hook) and 3 (a > fork) but had not yet reached agreement on the implementation of longer > trains. Ken said they would save that for their return flight, and they > did. > > …/Regards Rob > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
