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Whitney was first introduced to APL, and to programming, by [[Ken Iverson]], who was a friend of his father. In 1969, when Whitney was 11, Iverson demonstrated an interactive APL session for him. Although Whitney was introduced to other programming languages in university (starting in 1974), he studied mathematics, focusing on set theory and foundations of mathematics<ref>kx. [https://web.archive.org/web/20150813004101/http://kx.com/arthur-interview.php "An Interview with Arthur Whitney, Kx CEO and Developer of Kx Technology"]. 2004-01-04. Archived 2015-08-13.</ref>, and his APL work was limited to a few summer consulting jobs.<ref name="cantrill">Cantrill, Brian. [https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1531242 "A Conversation with Arthur Whitney"]. 2009.</ref> | Whitney was first introduced to APL, and to programming, by [[Ken Iverson]], who was a friend of his father. In 1969, when Whitney was 11, Iverson demonstrated an interactive APL session for him. Although Whitney was introduced to other programming languages in university (starting in 1974), he studied mathematics, focusing on set theory and foundations of mathematics<ref>kx. [https://web.archive.org/web/20150813004101/http://kx.com/arthur-interview.php "An Interview with Arthur Whitney, Kx CEO and Developer of Kx Technology"]. 2004-01-04. Archived 2015-08-13.</ref>, and his APL work was limited to a few summer consulting jobs.<ref name="cantrill">Cantrill, Brian. [https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1531242 "A Conversation with Arthur Whitney"]. 2009.</ref> | ||
Whitney worked at [[I.P. Sharp Associates]] in the early 1980s alongside [[Ken Iverson]] and [[Roger Hui]]. In 1982 he is credited with inventing the [[Rank operator]] while travelling to [[APL82]].<ref>[[Roger Hui | Whitney worked at [[I.P. Sharp Associates]] in the early 1980s alongside [[Ken Iverson]] and [[Roger Hui]]. In 1982 he is credited with inventing the [[Rank operator]] while travelling to [[APL82]].<ref name="hopl4">[[Roger Hui]] and [[Morten Kromberg]]. [https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3386319 ''APL since 1978'']. ACM [[HOPL]] IV. 2020-06.</ref><ref name="personalView">[[Ken Iverson|Iverson, K.E.]] [https://www.jsoftware.com/papers/APLPersonalView.htm "A personal view of APL"]. IBM Systems Journal. 30 (4): 582–593. 1991. | ||
</ref> He left Sharp to complete a graduate degree in mathematics from the [[wikipedia:University of Toronto|University of Toronto]], and subsequently worked for [[wikipedia:Stanford University|Stanford University]]. In this period Whitney was heavily invested in the design and implementation of interpreted programming languages, including not only array languages but also functional, logic, and object-oriented languages. His work at Stanford included a Prolog-style inference engine intended for AI programming.<ref name="cantrill"/> | </ref> He left Sharp to complete a graduate degree in mathematics from the [[wikipedia:University of Toronto|University of Toronto]], and subsequently worked for [[wikipedia:Stanford University|Stanford University]]. In this period Whitney was heavily invested in the design and implementation of interpreted programming languages, including not only array languages but also functional, logic, and object-oriented languages. His work at Stanford included a Prolog-style inference engine intended for AI programming.<ref name="cantrill"/> | ||