> Is this a blessing or a curse?
If you are a fan, it's a blessing; if not, it's a curse. Ken told me that
he was sometimes accused of including this or that primitive specifically
for particular problems (and that's why the notation does so well on those
problems). But when the accusation was leveled in problem after problem he
came to ignore it.
On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 2:47 AM, R.E. Boss <r.e.b...@planet.nl> wrote:
> > Van: programming-boun...@forums.jsoftware.com [mailto:
> programming-boun...@forums.jsoftware.com] Namens Raul Miller
> > Verzonden: woensdag 29 augustus 2012 1:17
> >
> > One interesting issue, here, is that the concise expression in J is
> > not because J was specifically optimized for this task, but because J
> > has so many expressions which can be used for this task.
>
> Is this a blessing or a curse?
>
>
> > But some people had expressed confusion, about how to read one of my
> drafts:
> >
> > f=:[:|:((i.|.-.)~(a.{~65 97+/i.26)&(*@#.@e.,@#[))"0
> >
> > So I thought I'd spend a few moments going over its grammar. This may
> > feel tedious if you have already figured out how that sentence works.
> >
> (...)
>
> Perhaps this could be transformed in an essay on Wiki, together with the
> description of the other ideas.
>
>
> R.E. Boss
>
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