Further test to this group, please ignore this email …/Rob H
> On 24 Oct 2017, at 9:45 am, Roger Hui <[email protected]> wrote: > > > (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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
