The closing sentence of Ken Iverson's Turing Lecture http://www.jsoftware.com/papers/tot.htm :
Finally, overemphasis of efficiency leads to an unfortunate circularity in design: for reasons of efficiency early programming languages reflected the characteristics of the early computers, and each generation of computers reflects the needs of the programming languages of the preceding generation. On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 10:17 PM, Raul Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > Meanwhile > > http://users.ece.utexas.edu/~adnan/pike.html > > ;) > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
