Philip S. Abrams is a

computer science Computer science is the study of computation, automation, and information. Computer science spans theoretical disciplines (such as algorithms, theory of computation, information theory, and automation) to practical disciplines (includi ...

researcher who co-authored the first

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of the programming language APL.

APL

In 1962, Kenneth E. Iverson published his book ''A Programming Language,'' describing a mathematical notation for describing array operations in mathematics. In 1965, Abrams and Lawrence M. Breed produced a compiler that translated expressions in Iverson's APL notation into IBM 7090 machine code. In the 1970s, he was vice president of development for

Scientific Time Sharing Corporation Scientific Time Sharing Corporation (STSC) was a pioneering timesharing and consulting service company which offered APL from its datacenter in Bethesda, MD to users in the United States and Europe. History Scientific Time Sharing Corporation ( ...

(STSC), Inc.

Selected works

* Abrams, Philip S.
''An APL Machine''
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), February, 1970.

References

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