Thank you for the excellent piece. Though w.r.t. the speculation in your final "Disclaimer", I'd expect the algebraically inclined to prefer either the elegant

Thank you for the excellent piece. Though w.r.t. the speculation in your final "Disclaimer", I'd expect the algebraically inclined to prefer either the elegant combinatorical explosion of a J, or the build-it-yourself language of a metaprogrammed Lisp.