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A mathematical notation for manipulating arrays was developed by [[Kenneth E. | A mathematical notation for manipulating arrays was developed by [[Ken Iverson|Kenneth E. Iverson]], starting in 1957 at Harvard University. In 1960, he began work for [[IBM]] where he developed this notation with [[Adin Falkoff]] and published it in his book A Programming Language in 1962. The preface states its premise: | ||
<blockquote>Applied mathematics is largely concerned with the design and analysis of explicit procedures for calculating the exact or approximate values of various functions. Such explicit procedures are called algorithms or programs. Because an effective notation for the description of programs exhibits considerable syntactic structure, it is called a programming language. | <blockquote>Applied mathematics is largely concerned with the design and analysis of explicit procedures for calculating the exact or approximate values of various functions. Such explicit procedures are called algorithms or programs. Because an effective notation for the description of programs exhibits considerable syntactic structure, it is called a programming language. | ||