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I still refuse to believe that anyone writes C like this. This is the output of an obfuscator, and the refusal of the J people to admit it makes them untrustwo
by msla 4y ago
I still refuse to believe that anyone writes C like this.
This is the output of an obfuscator, and the refusal of the J people to admit it makes them untrustworthy.
- abecedarius 4y agoI studied it a long time ago by incrementally rewriting bits into more my style, adding comments, as I understood the bits. It is a coherent style which I wasn't really tempted to imitate. I do admire the author for figuring out what he likes and sticking to it.
- zzo38computer 4y agoIt looks like it, but looking at the code more closely, I do not believe this to be the case; I think it was deliberately written like this, and obfuscation might not be its primary intention.
- recursive 4y agoSimilarly, I refuse to believe that anyone might doubt that some people actually write code like this.
- avmich 4y agoYeah, some refusals look like failures of imagination. J is "tool for thought" because there is a relatively - comparing to other languages - short distance between a thought and its implementation in the language. When e.g. somebody writes Java, her fingers used to type "for(int i = 0; i < ...; i++) {" without much thought. In J this whole construction is just hidden inside the language.
- msla 4y ago> J is "tool for thought" because there is a relatively - comparing to other languages - short distance between a thought and its implementation in the language. Only for some limited kinds of thoughts, to be sure.