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		swah on March 17, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: On being startled by a programming language Btw, is this related in anyway to Arthur?

kragen on March 17, 2011 [–]

Apparently Arthur Whitney wrote a one-page interpreter of an APL dialect in C (in the same style!) which inspired Ken Iverson to write J.

http://keiapl.org/rhui/remember.htm#40

swah on March 17, 2011 | [–]

He is also the author of the K language.

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