Rn lntezview with Peter: I started working at Rolls Royce--the Aero engine part-- Peter DeHee g and Schemes where I did financial modeling, but not in APL. I was actually introduced to APL by John Scholes. --As interviewed by Ray Polivlka ALOGAPL has become a vital part of the APL community. Two people who have had an important role in Dyadic are Peter Donnelly and John Scholes. In 1995 at the APL Conference in San Antonio, Texas, they jointly received SIGAPL's Iverson Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Development and Application of APL. The following interview took place in Rome, Italy, during the APL98 Conference. Ray: How did you come together? John: The company I worked for, W. S. Atkins in Surrey, along with a lot of engineering companies in those days, was doing large finite element analysis work in Fortran. This required powerful machines, and they would sell any spare capacity by running a time sharing bureau. Xerox APL was one of the bureau products. Initially, APL accounted for only a small part of the time-sharing business, but became increasingly important as more and more people became "converts." D Ray: Okay, Peter, you said that John had
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An interview with Peter Donnelley and John Scholes
Polivka, Ray
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, Volume 28 (3)
Association for Computing Machinery – Mar 1, 1998
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