A half-serious answer in the form of a question: should I learn Serb or Croat?
On 05/10/2021 at 2:11 PM, "joseph turco" <[email protected]> wrote: > >Hello, question moved here from programming to chat list, > >I am not trying to start a flame war, so please understand that is >not my >intentions. I am looking at either learning APL or J. I am an >inexperienced >programmer. My reasoning is that I would like to learn an array >language >purely as an academic exercise (you can say, 'for fun'). I know >this is a >J forum, so i assume its going to be biased, but is there any >reason I >should learn J instead of APL, or vice versa? Aside from J using >ASCII >characters instead of 'iverson notation' (excuse me if i got that >wrong or >if J also falls in that category), what am i losing out on not >focusing on >J and instead on APL? >------------------------------------------------------------------- >--- >For information about J forums see >http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
