On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 12:00 PM, Joe Bogner <[email protected]> wrote: > Not to nitpick here, but I don't think we can draw any conclusions on > the number of characters or even the number of operations (since each > composed of a conjunction and verb)
Oh, certainly. 4x was a ceiling. I doubt even 1x is a floor (because it depends on what else is happening). > I can cut down on the code size factor if I wanted to: > > E=:&.> > 1 + E (1;2;3) > > I don't think that's the right metric though. Yep. Need to get into the actual problem being solved before you can approach it reasonably. > I'm also not so sure we can say with certainty that K's each is faster > than J's without some testing. It's probably true that is doing more > work but the extra work may be inconsequential. And sometimes the extra work is beneficial. Sometimes you need the things which K has left out. The language is almost never the entire application. But I guess the real point is that there's going to be some cases where one language has an advantage, other cases where a different language has an advantage and a lot of cases where the language is not the most important issue. Thanks, -- Raul ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
