I went to the Hampshire College Summer Studies in Mathematics in 1979, where we learned APL with all its glorious obscure characters and overstrikes. Lots of fun.
This submission popping back up from the second chance pool got me to do some digging for the formal description of system/360[0], this is not the APL we know today but the APL outlined in Iverson's A Programming Language[1].
I went to the Hampshire College Summer Studies in Mathematics in 1979, where we learned APL with all its glorious obscure characters and overstrikes. Lots of fun.
9-track tape drives, drum disks, rectangular switches and lights, IBM "THINK" logo, fast card readers ... all bring back many personal memories.
This submission popping back up from the second chance pool got me to do some digging for the formal description of system/360[0], this is not the APL we know today but the APL outlined in Iverson's A Programming Language[1].
[0] https://www.cs.trinity.edu/~jhowland/class.files.cs2321.html...
[1] https://www.jsoftware.com/papers/APL.htm
In the intro I liked the precursors to the IBM "Thinkpad" name.
Yeah, I never knew that bit of history (probably did and just forgot it) and dug into it some after watching this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_(slogan)