Roy A. Crabtree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> 
>    you automatically get decomposition in FFP form

What does FFP stand for?


> the names imply the languages underlying reality very well:
> 
>   perl:  it glitters and shines, not much else
>   python:  if you do nor handle it carefully you will get restructured
> forcibly

very clever!

> * Mysticism - I have a past interest in symbols which have underlying
> >   meaning -
> > kabbalah, parables, hieroglyphics, cuneiform, crop circles, etc. J is
> > the most mystical and esoteric language out there.
> 
> Read Cajori HOMN.  Probably _NOT_ so.

yeah, J just looks cryptic to those who try to skim it like you might skim a
common programming language.

> 
> HOWEVER: in terms of our ancestors,
> Qabbalah and mysticism are not one and the same.

Magickal orders see Kabbalah as the mystical side of Judaism. But yes, there is
a huge war about Kabbalah versus Qabala.

> 
> Turns out in terms of semiotic systems based on wetware NNP

NNP is short for what?


> 
> if you fail to study J a s a tool for thinking about _Mathematics_
> 
>    which a part of the design intent
> 
> you have missed the point.
> 
> try that.   then see what you think about J.

that's what I always figured I needed to be doing. So you think I should quit
reading "Learning J" by Roger Stokes and go do all the labs in order? I never
was too good at math. And J might be good at formulating mathematics
computation, but proof is the other wing of that Great Bird, would you not say?


> cheers.

great post.




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