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From:
Andrew Rodland
Date:
May 19, 2005 20:43
Subject:
Re: reduce metaoperator on an empty list
Message ID:
200505192342.52716.arodland@entermail.net
On Thursday 19 May 2005 10:51 pm, Sam Vilain wrote:
> Edward Cherlin wrote:
> > Here is the last answer from Ken Iverson, who invented reduce in
> > the 1950s, and died recently.
> > file:///usr/share/j504/system/extras/help/dictionary/intro28.htm
>
>    [snip]
>
> Thanks for bringing in a little history to the discussion.  Those links
> are all local to your system; do you have internet reachable versions of
> them?
>
These seem to be the original sources:

http://www.jsoftware.com/books/help/dictionary/intro28.htm
http://www.jsoftware.com/books/help/dictionary/d420.htm

and so on. Front page is at 
http://www.jsoftware.com/books/help/dictionary/title.htm . I still haven't 
figured out what "J" is though.
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