>i expect Ken got the question on the first day he introduced his "notation of >thought" in class. Anyway here is a criticism that goes back many decades
https://books.google.com/books?id=7wCiNAUEuAMC&pg=RA1-PA160&lpg=RA1-PA160&dq=%22apl+one+liners%22 >Geeks are still fulminating over it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22561121 Anyway Happy Pi Day! ~greg http://krsnadas.org -- from: Skip Cave <[email protected]> to: Chat forum <[email protected]> date: Mar 14, 2020, 10:08 AM subject: Re: [Jchat] J "like-wow"s? mean or average (+/%#) smallest and largest (<./,>./) multiplication table (and addition, subtraction, division) */~i.10 Skip Cave Cave Consulting LLC -- from: 'PMA' via Chat <[email protected]> to: [email protected] date: Mar 14, 2020, 9:16 AM subject: [Jchat] J "like-wow"s? Hi, J gurus -- >I hazarded to regale a non-programmer friend with J's (+/i.1000000). She >loved this, so I've followed with a link to NuVoc, and now she loves that! >So I want to ask, could y'all suggest a list of maybe a dozen favorite J >one-liners, that I could send too? >(Somewhere, I've still got one for APL from eons ago.) >I know you're busy. Thanks in advance. Pete ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
