Philip S. Abrams

Philip S. Abrams is a computer science researcher who co-authored the first implementation of the programming language APL.

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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 (STSC), Inc.

Selected works

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