C VRT R OE SO Y e,. D TER IEW: the area. During that time she was working with APL. I got to talking with her and it all started coming back. I caught on very quicldy and even had some debates in the hall. I fared pretty well, I think. QQ:Where were you physically located then? heim: taaes As INTERVIEWEDBY RAY POLIVKA Lou: I was in Poughkeepsie; I worked for IBM this whole time. I started as a Customer Engineer, fixing computers, until I had the opportunity to work in the laboratory in Poughkeepsie. A few months later, we had a programming project come up and I decided to consider using APL for a problem that we needed to solve. W h e n they put in all the requirements, APL couldn't do it--but neither could any other language. So, it was much easier to enhance APL and we choose to do it in APL. QQ: Was there a machine implementation by then? Lou: There was a machine implementation, but there was no file system. Also, this application had to have multiple terminals working together. QQ: What year was this? Lou: This was z968 or '69. We
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