Arthur Whitney

Arthur Whitney is a computer scientist most notable for developing the APL-inspired programming languages A+ and K. He also wrote the initial prototype of J, a terse and macro-heavy single page of code in one afternoon, which then served as the model for J implementor Roger Hui. He studied pure mathematics at graduate level at the University of Toronto (Canada) in the early 1980s. He then worked at Stanford University (California, USA). Currently... more

Arthur Whitney is a computer scientist most notable for developing the APL-inspired programming languages A+ and K. He also wrote the initial prototype of J, a terse and macro-heavy single page of code in one afternoon, which then served as the model for J implementor Roger Hui. He studied pure mathematics at graduate level at the University of Toronto (Canada) in the early 1980s. He then worked at Stanford University (California, USA). Currently he is the CEO and co-founder of Kx Systems. less