klettow

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by klettow 10y ago
Background on trains: http://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Essays/Trains
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by klettow 10y ago
http://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Essays/Key#History
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by klettow 15y ago
J? K? q?
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by klettow 15y ago
You're maintaining 5000 lines of J code huh? Sounds like a decent sized project. If you are spending 5-10 hours every week or two maintaining it, why not have a go at replacing it with something you do know? I would love to know how it w
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by klettow 15y ago
At the bottom of the page, there are the following instructions: The text requires the APL385 Unicode font, which can be downloaded from https://sites.google.com/site/baavector/fonts .
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by klettow 15y ago
Have you ever used J or APL seriously? If yes, what do you find so "crappy" about the notations? If no, please keep your uninformed opinion to yourself, you have no idea what you are talking about.
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by klettow 16y ago
Sum in J is +/ not, $&$%^%$%M. Is +/ really too hard to comprehend? I agree with you that APL is historically important, but J is Ken Iverson's last and greatest gift to the programming community. He used the 26 years between the rele
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by klettow 16y ago
By cleaner, do you mean more verbose? For example, the well known phrase for average in J is (average=: +/ % #). You would have no problem assigning names to the parts of the function, i.e. (sum=: +/), (divide=: %), (tally=: #) and defining
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by klettow 16y ago
You should really reference the online version of the dictionary http://www.jsoftware.com/help/dictionary/contents.htm , it is the current version.
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J 7.01 Now Playing in your Browser(bakerjd99.wordpress.com)
3 points by klettow 16y ago|0 comments