OpenEuphoria

Re: direction

• Posted by Everett Williams <rett at GVTC.COM> Mar 23, 2000
• 502 views

Bernie Ryan wrote:

> Everett Williams wrote:
>
>>I will quote Donald Knuth, the author of
>>APL, in an interview mainly about TeX, one of his other minor creations.
>>
>
>  The original APL programming language was defined in a book by
>
>  Kenneth Iverson called A Programming Langauge, published in 1962.
>
You are so right. So much for pontificating. Actually, I had already figured
it out, but you beat me to it. The point he makes still stands. I have lived
thru much of the history and I do mistake parts of it from time to time. But,
as suggested in the quote, I had gone back and reread some of the history
and found out that it was Iverson instead of Knuth. Since I took my first
programming course in 1966, these things were already a part of
computing's history when I wrote my first line of code. Knuth also wrote
another book that you and Kat would find fascinating if you have not
read it already. The book is "Literate Programming" and it heads in
much the direction that I hope Euphoria is heading. There is a very good
interview with Knuth at the following URL:


It mentions APL and a host of other things that might be interesting to
any one who cares about where this field is heading...including an old/new
language that he has just kicked out called CWEB.

Everett L.(Rett) Williams
rett at gvtc.com