5jt

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by 5jt 3y ago
Whitney and I both worked in the 1970s for I.P. Sharp Associates, which used an email system written beautifully in APL by Leslie Goldsmith. Most user names were simply our initials. Ian Sharp was IPS, Leslie LHG, and Arthur ATW. (Middle na
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by 5jt 4y ago
What is a life? Two billion heartbeats. Perhaps four thousand books. And how many keystrokes?
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Y Q?(5jt.com)
2 points by 5jt 4y ago|2 comments
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by 5jt 5y ago
The next episode of The Array Cast (array cast.com) discusses the rise and fall of the array languages APL, J, k and q.
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by 5jt 5y ago
The next episode of The Array Cast (array cast.com) discusses the rise and fall of the array languages APL, J, k and q.
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What Makes a Language Flourish?(5jt.com)
2 points by 5jt 5y ago|1 comments
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Learn Vector Programming(5jt.com)
2 points by 5jt 5y ago|0 comments
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The Array Cast(arraycast.com)
3 points by 5jt 5y ago|0 comments
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The Notation: Ken Iverson Centenary(kx.com)
84 points by 5jt 6y ago|31 comments
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by 5jt 6y ago
Blog post on the Iverson centenary by Mark Sykes, COO of Kx systems https://kx.com/blog/the-notation/ #iverson100
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Iverson Centenary: The Future of “The Notation”(eventbrite.co.uk)
1 points by 5jt 6y ago|1 comments
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by 5jt 9y ago
I try to get to most of the Kx Meetups in London.
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by 5jt 9y ago
While I’m learning kdb+, Dyalog remains my favourite language for hacking and is likely to remain so for much of the publishing work I do, because of its solid UTF-8 support. Iverson was on to something with his iterators. I am still gettin