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Kenneth E. Iverson, Canadian computer scientist, developed the APL programming language (died 2004)
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Kenneth E. Iverson
Canadian computer scientist (1920–2004)
Kenneth Eugene Iverson was a Canadian computer scientist noted for the development of the programming language APL. He was honored with the Turing Award in 1979 "for his pioneering effort in programming languages and mathematical notation resulting in what the computing field…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
APL (programming language)
Functional programming language for arrays
APL is a programming language developed in the 1960s by Kenneth E. Iverson. Its central datatype is the multidimensional array. It uses a large range of special graphic symbols to represent most functions and operators, leading to very concise code. It has been an important…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)