Randy MacDonald wrote: > Happy New Year, Tracy; A belated Happy New Year to you, too, Randy. > > My personal thought about that "law" that says all systems of > sufficient complexity are equivalent to lisp, my thought is, > that all matter of sufficient temperature becomes plasma. True, > but not of much use in the ordinary world.
I had not recognized the allusion to that saying, so thanks for pointing it out. > BTW, did the xkcd post have such an effect on the lisp community? Touché Perhaps there is a fine line between desiring to see the beauty of J more widely recognized, and falling into factional squabbling. Lisp has had a small but fervent user base for a long time, and XKCD is one manifestation of that. At the point I start letting myself think "if they only knew..." I've fallen off the edge into fantasy. People don't embrace J because, having been exposed to its awe-inspiring qualities, they are swept away by "the purity of quantified conception." That is likely to be a factor, but without a sense that J provides what they need in their actual context they'll never go beyond initial dabbling. -- Tracy ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
