I’ve recently come to be fascinated by J. Twenty years ago, studying my computing degree, one semester we learned J. It was unlike anything I’d used before and

I’ve recently come to be fascinated by J. Twenty years ago, studying my computing degree, one semester we learned J. It was unlike anything I’d used before and the entire class found it confusing. The compiler / environment was reportedly written by one of the professors and it was routine to run into bugs; I remember puzzling through something, going to a tutor, and them just shrugging it off as a J interpreter issue. I never grokked it and simply passed the course. But it keeps on recurring to me and I pause to think of J at the weirdest times. As I use more and more languages, I’ve become more fascinated by it. Just like Prolog (also one semester, but with a reliable environment.) I want to learn both better.