My reaction to Roger's post was - we should have the whole of the document
on the web.
So I would really encourage you to continue with retyping it into the Wiki.
Fraser
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From: "Joey K Tuttle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Chat forum" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, July 19, 2008 2:12 PM
Subject: Re: [Jchat] right to/of left -- what about left to right?
At 15:09 -0700 2008/07/18, Roger Hui wrote:
http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Doc/Elementary_Functions_An_Algorithmic_Treatment#evaluation_order
by Ken Iverson, 1966.
Bravo! I recently borrowed a copy of "Elementary Functions ..." from
Eugene McDonnell (because my own copy is squirreled away in a box
somewhere - sigh) and made copies of Appendix A that you have provided in
scanned form. My idea was to retype that into the wiki with TeX for the
formulas and perhaps I'll continue to do that as a more flexible form of
the material.
I think it is worth noting that the March 1, 1966 date that Ken wrote the
foreword is well before the first/any working version of APL\360 and the
APL notation in the book is from the earlier 7090 work at Stanford. The
examples look a bit clumsy because of things which have evolved such as
being able to enter a vector like 1 2 3 instead of 1,2,3 but the whole
book is a good look at early thinking going in to evolving from a notation
to a working interpreter.
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