I feel uncomfortable having this be labeled "Raul's style of thinking". I'm just relaying some concepts that Ken Iverson expressed.
That said, I can't find an expression of them right now. But I did find some fun stuff at http://keiapl.org/anec/ Thanks, -- Raul On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 9:25 PM, I.T. Daniher <[email protected]> wrote: > I like Raul's style of thinking, comment rescinded. > > Best! > -- > Ian > > On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 9:18 PM, Tracy Harms <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I >> On Jul 21, 2013 8:27 AM, "I.T. Daniher" <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > You can definitely build similar aliases in J - simply writing 'add =: +' >> > will get you so far, but the right to left execution order confounds >> > attempts to make truely human readable sentences, where left-to-right >> > order is used. >> > >> >> Like Raul, I disagree. I have become fluent enough in J that I naturally >> read unfamiliar sentences from left to right, except for the glance to the >> far right that may be needed to qualify whether the sentence as a whole is >> a noun or a verb. Such reading favors general comprehension early on, with >> details filled in as the sentence is completed. >> >> As a transition measure, when I've needed to read J sentences from right to >> left I have, once I understood the sentence, then read it from left to >> right. Repeated reading of a sentence with various scanning patterns builds >> literacy, I've found. Another example is reading forks from inside, out, as >> well as from the outside, in. As time goes on you may become less aware of, >> or concerned with, the order in which you read. At least, that's been my >> experience. >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
