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被哈佛扫地出门,他发明了让无数程序员痛不欲生的编程语言,获得了计算机界最高奖......

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TL;DR - A historical profile of Kenneth Iverson and APL, the influential array-oriented language that helped popularize concise, interactive programming and earned Iverson the Turing Award.

  • APL uses specialized symbols and array primitives to express operations such as reshaping, reduction, sorting, and matrix multiplication compactly.
  • Its array-first, largely functional model encourages parallel, vectorized thinking instead of explicit loops.
  • IBM implemented APL on System/360, offering an interactive environment when batch processing still dominated.
  • APL later inspired the ASCII-based J language and remains relevant in scientific, statistical, actuarial, and financial computing.

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