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A week later, [[Eric Iverson]] asserted to McDonnell that the name was already well known. | A week later, [[Eric Iverson]] asserted to McDonnell that the name was already well known. | ||
The letters APL are shared by [[wikipedia:APL|many other entities]]. [[Roger Hui]] remarks that he "started in 1966 on an APL machine that weighed 15,000 tons, when I travelled from Hong Kong to San Francisco on the S.S. President Wilson of the [[wikipedia:American President Lines|American President Lines]]."<ref>[[Roger Hui|Hui, Roger]]. [https://www.jsoftware.com/papers/eem/anecdotes.htm#15000 "Eugene McDonnell Quotations and Anecdotes"].</ref> | The letters APL are shared by [[wikipedia:APL|many other entities]]. [[Roger Hui]] remarks that he "started in 1966 on an APL machine that weighed 15,000 tons, when I travelled from Hong Kong to San Francisco on the S.S. President Wilson of the [[wikipedia:American President Lines|American President Lines]]."<ref>[[Roger Hui|Hui, Roger]]. [https://www.jsoftware.com/papers/eem/anecdotes.htm#15000 "Eugene McDonnell Quotations and Anecdotes"].</ref> See also [https://www.dyalog.com/blog/2016/07/its-apl-but-not-as-we-know-it/ It’s APL… but not as we know it!] on the [[Dyalog Ltd.|Dyalog]] blog. | ||
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