While self-isolating orchestras and amateur musicians are playing ‘Ode to Joy’ from their open windows, I would like to give it a try with my ode to J. If you read the Hacker News or other programming resources, you probably have read the following passage: “One summer weekend in 1989, Arthur Whitney visited Ken Iverson at Kiln Farm and produced—on one page and in one afternoon—an interpreter fragment on the AT&T 3B1 computer.
