mathematician
Científico de la computación canadiense (1920–2004)
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Join the roomKenneth Eugene Iverson fue un científico de la computación canadiense destacado por el desarrollo del lenguaje de programación APL. Fue honrado con el Premio Turing en 1979 "por su esfuerzo pionero en lenguajes de programación y notación matemática que resultó en lo que el campo de la computación ahora conoce como APL; por sus contribuciones a la implementación de sistemas interactivos, a los usos educativos de APL y a la teoría y práctica de los lenguajes de programación".
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“The initial motive for developing APL was to provide a tool for writing and teaching. Although APL has been exploited mostly in commercial programming, I continue to believe that its most important use remains to be exploited: as a simple, precise, executable notation for the teaching of a wide range of subjects.”
“If it is to be effective as a tool of thought, a notation must allow convenient expression not only of notions arising directly from a problem, but also of those arising in subsequent analysis, generalization, and specialization.”
“The properties of executability and universality associated with programming languages can be combined, in a single language, with the well-known properties of mathematical notation which make it such an effective tool of thought.”
“It is important to distinguish the difficulty of describing and learning a piece of notation from the difficulty of mastering its implications. [...] Indeed, the very suggestiveness of a notation may make it seem harder to learn because of the many properties it suggests for exploration.”
“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.”
“With the computer and programming languages, mathematics has newly-acquired tools, and its notation should be reviewed in the light of them. The computer may, in effect, be used as a patient, precise, and knowledgeable "native speaker" of mathematical notation.”
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