Can't wait for you to come up with this graphic based Unicode based new visual J with all those glorious qualities... Tell us when you are done. :)
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of dly Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2007 1:01 AM To: Chat forum Subject: Re: [Jchat] J readability The beauty of APL is not just in the eye of the beholder - there is intrinsic beauty in an APL expression. Of course clever people can do math with roman numerals but not as simply, efficiently and elegantly as with numbers expressed in a consistent base. J not only abandoned the symbol set of APL, it abandoned the simplicity, consistency and elegance of APL. However, I have seen few APL programs that were designed with the consistency and elegance of the APL language because few APL programmers appreciated and used the grammar and syntax of APL when they wrote code. To be readable you need to be able to recognize the morphemes, words, and sentences which is easy in APL and not so in J. Donna [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 18-Dec-07, at 10:49 PM, Joey K Tuttle wrote: >> >> These criticisms are really showing differences in taste rather then >> substance. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
