Devon, (1) Re: the entry
[1970s] APLUM: developed by the Computer Science Department at UMass Amherst for the Control Data 6000/Cyber instruction set at http://www.sigapl.org/APLChronology.php Unless I mistaken, APLUM was developed at UMass, yes, but NOT by the Computer Science Department. Rather, APLUM was developed in the University Computing Center, which separated from the nascent Computer Science Program around 1965. I seem to recall that APLUM development began only after 1967, when Conrad Wogrin was recruited from Yale as Director of the renamed University Computing Center (formerly the Research Computing Center). Conie also was appointed Professor of Computer Science. Connie was an APL enthusiast (as was his Yale colleague Alan J. Perlis). Also as I recall, the principal architects and implementors of APLUM were Clark Weidmann and James (Jim) Burrill. I frequently interacted with Jim when my linear algebra students were using APL in the late-1970s to mid-1980s. I last saw Jim two years ago, at an event marking the 50th anniversary of computing at UMass. At that time he was still in the Amherst area. If you search, I think you’ll find a home phone number for him in South Deerfield, MA. He also has an entry on LinkedIn: Jim Burrill, “The Big Cheese at James H. Burrill & Associates”. You may also be able to verify the locus of APLUM development, as well as the dates, with Connie Wogrin (try [email protected]), who has been Professor Emeritus for some years now. If you’re unable to contact either Jim Burrill or Connie Wogrin, you could also try my APL and J collaborator Howard A. Peelle <[email protected]>, who was an early adopter of APL for teaching teachers to use it in school math. (2) Another event that may be worth including in the Chronology is the ANSI/ISO standardization of APL (Core APL language - ISO 8485:1989; Extended APL language - ISO/IEC 13751:2001). I seem to recall that Clark Weidmann led the ANSI working group for at least the former. Murray On 24 Nov 2013 13:49:13 -0500, Devon McCormick <[email protected]> wrote: > I've put up a preliminary draft of the APL chronology I've assembled with > the help of many on this forum: > http://www.sigapl.org/APLChronology.php > .<http://www.sigapl.org/APLChronology.php> > > Anyone who's interested should please take a look and feel free to point > out any errors or omissions. Also, any suggestions for presenting the > information more elegantly are also welcome. --- Murray Eisenberg [email protected] Mathematics & Statistics Dept. Lederle Graduate Research Tower University of Massachusetts 710 North Pleasant Street Amherst, MA 01003-9305 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
