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Letter: APL Starmap

Vector 22:4, page 7

applications APL in perspective

From: John R. Thorstensen

It was a surprise and delight to find (in an idle moment of web browsing) that APL Starmap is still alive and kicking on the Web!  I wrote that in the summer of 1973 between my 3rd and 4th years of College, when I happened to find lodging for a summer job in a spare bedroom at Paul and Sarita Berry’s house in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. Since then I’ve gone on to other things ...

http://www.dartmouth.edu/~physics/faculty/thorstensen.html

but I still enjoy writing code for the celestial sphere ...

http://mdm.kpno.noao.edu/Manuals/doc/guimanual.html

John R. Thorstensen – Professor and Chair
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Dartmouth College
6127 Wilder Laboratory
Hanover, NH 03755