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		ofalkaed 60 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Origins of APL (1974) [video] This submission popping back up from the second chance pool got me to do some digging for the formal description of system/360[0], this is not the APL we know today but the APL outlined in Iverson's A Programming Language[1]. [0] https://www.cs.trinity.edu/~jhowland/class.files.cs2321.html... [1] https://www.jsoftware.com/papers/APL.htm

5- 60 days ago [–]

there is also "computer architecture: concepts and evolution" by blaauw and brooks which also uses apl throughout.

https://search.worldcat.org/title/Computer-architecture-:-co...

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