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Robert Bernecky

The Array Cast

CHAPTER

How I Learned High Performance Computing

I got hired to do to brown thumb the epskobel compiler that was just on its trying to get out the door. I learned a PL using the Sharp APL system and was having trouble this being my first APL program ever. And he said, Oh, can you drag me off? Look at the source code. And we looked at it and sure enough, that's what was doing. He said, Okay, fix it. That led to the first technical paper that I ever wrote on high performance computation,. which I gave at the PL Congress in Copenhagen, 1973. It's been down the all since then.

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