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From left to right: Dick Lathwell, Kenneth Iverson, Roger Moore,
Adin Falkoff, Philip Abrams, and Lawrence Breed during the 1978
APL
Users' Meeting. This photograph appeared in
I.P. Sharp
Newsletter
6, no. 6 (1978) with the caption “it is believed to be the
first time that all six 'originators of
APL
' have been in the same
place at the same time, it is probably the first time that all six have
worn jackets and ties simultaneously and the first time that Ken and
Adin have been observed to smile simultaneously.” (Source: York
University Computer Museum, photographer unknown.)
grammers across North America and beyond. In the 1970s,
APL
conferences and meetings, publications and interest groups, as
well as “I Love
APL
” stickers and buttons, T-shirts and songs,
transformed the initial curiosity about the principles of
APL
programming developed at
IBM
into an unprecedented cul-
tural phenomenon, rivaled only by the strength, creativity, and
enthusiasm of the North American computer hobbyists' move-
ment of the time.
