Adin Falkoff
Adin Falkoff · Technology & Engineering
Co-designed and implemented the APL programming language.
1921, New Jersey, United States — 2010, United States
United States
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Adin D. Falkoff was an American engineer and computer scientist who, working at IBM with Kenneth Iverson from 1960 to 1980, co-designed and implemented the APL programming language and its interactive environment. He is credited with coining the name 'APL' and with landmark work formally describing the IBM System/360 in APL notation. He is documented as being of Jewish background.
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Co-designed and implemented the APL programming language.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Computer Science
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