Robert (Bob) Bernecky is a Canadian

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notable as a designer and implementer of APL. His APL career started at I.P. Sharp Associates (IPSA) in 1971. Bernecky's first published APL work concerned with speeding up the ''iota'' and ''epsilon'' (''index-of'' and ''membership'') primitives functions by orders of magnitude. While at IPSA, he was a colleague of

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, Dick Lathwell,

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, Arthur Whitney, and APL inventor Ken Iverson. He continued on after IPSA was acquired by

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on 1987-04-01, and left Reuters in 1990 to found Snake Island Research. He conducts research into functional array languages, APL compiler, and parallel-processing technology to this day. Bernecky holds the Master of Science degree from the University of Toronto.

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Snake Island Research Inc.
Living people APL implementers California Institute of Technology alumni Canadian computer scientists I. P. Sharp Associates employees Programming language designers University of Toronto alumni 1947 births {{Canada-compu-bio-stub