On May 22, 2009, at 3:57 PM, [email protected] wrote: > At Mon, 12 May 2008 21:13:07 -0400 Devon McCormick wrote, > "... customized profile but have been able to do away with this - > it's simpler to be able to rely on > more of the default settings." > > For example, my profile.js has > screen=. 1!:2&2 NB. Screen something as a side effect. > > Are you recommending the native expression > 1!:2&2 rather than the alias "screen"? > Please elaborate a little. > > At Mon, 12 May 2008 21:31:48 -0400 Henry Rich wrote, > "... like the difference between Middle English > and Modern English. Expect some translating." > > Will think of it as an adventure rather than > an ordeal. > > Thanks fellows, ... Peter E. > > -- > http://members.shaw.ca/peasthope/ > http://carnot.yi.org/ = http://carnot.pathology.ubc.ca/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
Geoffrey Chaucer, an English poet circa 1340, wrote The Canterbury Tales circa 1340, with a number of poems, many quite long. The General prologue begins: Whan that Aprille with his shoures soote The droghte of March hath perced to the roote, And bathed every veyne in swich licour Of which vertu engendred is the flour; Whan Zephirus eek with his sweete breeth Inspired hath in every holt and heeth The tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne Hath in the Ram his halve cours yronne, And smale fowles maken melodye, That slepen al the nyght with open ye (so priketh hem nature corages ... That gives you some idea of the language of that era. I can't just now find my Anglo Saxon Dictionary, of several centuries earlier ,will be even more difficult to read. Eugene ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
