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After graduating as a research biologist, she was offered 6 months of training in EDP (Electronic Data Processing). Afterwards, she had to do an internship, and was placed at [[I.P. Sharp Associates]] (IPSA), where she felt very much at home. When exposed to the implicit mapping of APL's [[scalar function]]s, she immediately fell in love and never looked back at [[wikipedia:Fortran|Fortran]].<ref name=cl>Catherine Lathwell. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kUQWuK1L4w Gitte Christensen on her introduction to APL]. 2009.</ref> | After graduating as a research biologist, she was offered 6 months of training in EDP (Electronic Data Processing). Afterwards, she had to do an internship, and was placed at [[I.P. Sharp Associates]] (IPSA), where she felt very much at home. When exposed to the implicit mapping of APL's [[scalar function]]s, she immediately fell in love and never looked back at [[wikipedia:Fortran|Fortran]].<ref name=cl>Catherine Lathwell. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kUQWuK1L4w Gitte Christensen on her introduction to APL]. 2009.</ref> | ||
[[File:Iverson_Gitte.png|thumb|left|Gitte Christensen's Iverson Award]] | [[File:Iverson_Gitte.png|thumb|left|Gitte Christensen's Iverson Award]] | ||
She met [[Morten Kromberg]] via the IPSA Mailbox (also written in APL, before the Internet), which (as opposed to today's email protocols) allowed looking up information mail addresses. Kromberg had written a little routine that would keep track of mail addresses that had recently been added or removed. When he noticed "a lady" had joined the Copenhagen, Denmark office, he immediately sent a message welcoming Christensen, and they started communicating via email and the then available <source lang=apl inline>)MESSAGE</ | She met [[Morten Kromberg]] via the IPSA Mailbox (also written in APL, before the Internet), which (as opposed to today's email protocols) allowed looking up information mail addresses. Kromberg had written a little routine that would keep track of mail addresses that had recently been added or removed. When he noticed "a lady" had joined the Copenhagen, Denmark office, he immediately sent a message welcoming Christensen, and they started communicating via email and the then available <source lang=apl inline>)MESSAGE</syntaxhighlight> system command.<ref name=cl/> | ||
After Kromberg visited Copenhagen for the second time, they became a couple,<ref name=cl/> and in 1990 they together formed Insight Systems where they combined [[SHARP APL]] work with work in [[APL*PLUS]] and [[Dyalog APL]] on PCs. | After Kromberg visited Copenhagen for the second time, they became a couple,<ref name=cl/> and in 1990 they together formed Insight Systems where they combined [[SHARP APL]] work with work in [[APL*PLUS]] and [[Dyalog APL]] on PCs. | ||