As I recall Carthage was destroyed. Maybe the scourge of index origin 1 will follow.
Cheers Sent from my iPhone > On May 17, 2018, at 1:23 PM, Roger Hui <[email protected]> wrote: > > If it used alpha and omega then it's not tacit. Tacit means no explicit > mention of the function arguments; the term "tacit" was invented in 1991 > http://www.jsoftware.com/papers/TacitDefn.htm . Tacit definition was first > used APL\360, way back in 1966, as in +/ , but it was not recognized as > tacit. What made tacit fly were forks, first implemented in J in version > 0.1. In fact, tacit defn was implemented in J long before explicit defn. > > > >> On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 12:14 PM, Don Guinn <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Tacit came out first in APL. Used alpha and omega. First time I saw +/รท# >> and thought "What is that??" (Sorry. Couldn't find rho.) >> >>> On Thu, May 17, 2018, 11:24 AM David Lambert <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> "APL and J are conceptually similar. That is, one knowing one language >> can >>> easily pick up the other. " >>> Verbs and rank thinking are easily transferred. Tacit programming was >> new >>> and difficult for me, having used APL, APL2, and a VAX-VMS APL from DEC. >>> .QQ is quote quad, .BX is box, etceteras. >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
