A Source Book in APL (1981)

I understand staying true to the source material, but light brown/ochre on white background is barely readable... Especially with old school print type on a screen.

Re: A Source Book in APL (1981)

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Post by pasbesoin » Sun, Apr 16, 2017, 9:02 PM UTC

fernly wrote: post #3

target domain softwarepreservation.org appears to be down with an internal error.

33 minutes later, per HN.

It's there -- just slow. Took a couple of minutes for the PDF to come down.

P.S. Here, I should have just done this, before:

http://wayback.archive.org/web/20150908083715/http://www.sof...

Re: A Source Book in APL (1981)

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Post by throwaway7645 » Sun, Apr 16, 2017, 9:08 PM UTC

pasbesoin wrote: post #5

fernly wrote: post #3

target domain softwarepreservation.org appears to be down with an internal error.

33 minutes later, per HN. It's there -- just slow. Took a couple of minutes for the PDF to come down. P.S. Here, I should have just done this, before: http://wayback.archive.org/web/20150908083715/http://www.sof...

Is that really due to HN when there are 3 comments on here?

Re: A Source Book in APL (1981)

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Post by fernly » Sun, Apr 16, 2017, 9:21 PM UTC

pasbesoin wrote: post #5

fernly wrote: post #3

target domain softwarepreservation.org appears to be down with an internal error.

33 minutes later, per HN. It's there -- just slow. Took a couple of minutes for the PDF to come down. P.S. Here, I should have just done this, before: http://wayback.archive.org/web/20150908083715/http://www.sof...

Top level came up once, now back to 502 gateway error. (Acts like it's hosted on somebody's personal system out of comcast.)

Re: A Source Book in APL (1981)

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Post by fernly » Sun, Apr 16, 2017, 9:36 PM UTC

OK so it will eventually load if you bang it enough.

This is a collection of papers written Ken Iverson[1], some with his frequent collaborator Aden Falkoff. The most important, longest, and latest (1980) is Iverson's "Notation as a Tool of Thought" from the CACM.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_E._Iverson

Re: A Source Book in APL (1981)

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Post by fernly » Sun, Apr 16, 2017, 9:37 PM UTC

fernly wrote: post #7

pasbesoin wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

33 minutes later, per HN. It's there -- just slow. Took a couple of minutes for the PDF to come down. P.S. Here, I should have just done this, before: http://wayback.archive.org/web/20150908083715/http://www.sof...

Top level came up once, now back to 502 gateway error. (Acts like it's hosted on somebody's personal system out of comcast.)

When it finally comes up I'm surprised to find it's an offshoot of the Computer History Museum, though odd it isn't hosted out of their normally bulletproof site, computerhistory.org.

Re: A Source Book in APL (1981)

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Post by gtani » Sun, Apr 16, 2017, 10:13 PM UTC

fernly wrote: post #3

target domain softwarepreservation.org appears to be down with an internal error.

Slightly faster, and i mean only slightly: https://web.archive.org/web/*/www.softwarepreservation.org/p...

(I will actually read carefully but maybe not today, as a former fulltime APL developer).