He came to ignore it, to take it as a compliment, or both
(http://www.jsoftware.com/pipermail/programming/2010-September/020457.html)?
;)
On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 11:47 AM, Roger Hui <rogerhui.can...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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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