>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

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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

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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
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