Philip S. Abrams is a computer science researcher who co-authored the first implementation of the programming language APL.
[1] In 1962, Kenneth E. Iverson published his book A Programming Language, describing a mathematical notation for describing array operations in mathematics.
[2] In 1965, Abrams and Lawrence M. Breed produced a compiler that translated expressions in Iverson's APL notation into IBM 7090 machine code.
[1] In the 1970s, he was vice president of development for Scientific Time Sharing Corporation (STSC), Inc.[3]
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