It's more general than you'd think -- though it is a drastically different way of looking at problems. You have to set your sights a bit further up the scope of

It's more general than you'd think -- though it is a drastically different way of looking at problems. You have to set your sights a bit further up the scope of the problem, and that takes a lot of getting used to. Thinking in terms of the whole instead of the step is a lot different from most other programming! (I'm only a novice J programmer, but I quite like the language.)