J is another APL variant using ASCII instead of special symbols. You can easily label or rename any function to make it more readable, but it goes against the i

J is another APL variant using ASCII instead of special symbols. You can easily label or rename any function to make it more readable, but it goes against the idea of learning the symbols for conciseness ala mathematical symbols. There is a recent blog entry about using J for spectral clustering in quantitative neuroscience [1] I am now very comfortable with J, and I am checking out ELI for comparison. I like the idea of the compiler, however, in J the math routines are very fast, well-crafted c libraries, so the interpreter is very fast with results. [1] http://procyonic.org/blog/?p=98 http://procyonic.org/blog/?p=98