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Tag: interactive-computing

APL and Kenneth Iverson: Executable Mathematical Notation

Kenneth Iverson's array-oriented mathematical notation evolved at IBM into APL, an interactive programming language whose compact operators treated whole arrays as primary objects of thought and computation.

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Whirlwind and the Origins of Real-Time Interactive Programming

MIT's Whirlwind joined high-speed digital computation with real-time input, graphical displays and pointing interaction, creating a programming environment markedly different from later batch-processing mainframes.

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