"I did not join IBM until 1960, at which time I was just finishing up my A Programming Language, published in 1962. It included a chapter (called Microprogramming) on the formal description of the IBM 7090 machine."
Well, considering I met Iverson, attended many if his lectures during conferences in the early ‘80’s, actually used APL professionally for about ten years —including using it for a system involved in the race to decode the human genome— and even published a paper and gave a lecture at an APL conference...
Still, I appreciate the misinformed down-votes. Always good fun.
The number of people on HN who talk about APL as though they actually understood what they are talking about seems to increase with time. It’s like watching people have opinionated discussions about SQL when they’ve only read about it, googled a few articles and tried it for half an hour.
"I did not join IBM until 1960, at which time I was just finishing up my A Programming Language, published in 1962. It included a chapter (called Microprogramming) on the formal description of the IBM 7090 machine."