Whet in English probably originated in your language and the meaning is
the same as hvetja..
English is a borrowing or polyglot language -partly from its origins
so Viking words came into it as well as Saxon (Germanic) and later
Norman French and possibly a smattering of Gaelic, a lot of Latin and
Greek along with bits and pieces of other languages.
The Saxon gave us 'Cow' and the Norman French gave us 'beef'. Guess who
were the peasants and overlords after 1066?
English must be one of the hardest languages to learn well- partly due
to the variations of 'ough' that should have been thrown out 500 years
ago and partly because of different meaning of a word or different
spellings of the words with different meanings and the same sounds
-e.g. lead (to lead a person) lead (the metal) or led (past tense of lead).
At least J doesn't have dialects.
Don
whet is related to hvetja in my language.
http://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/hvetja
means both sharpen and encourage.
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Björn Helgason
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skype:gosiminn
On 13.3.2014 09:31, "Bo Jacoby" <bojac...@yahoo.dk> wrote:
'Whet you appetite' should perhaps be 'Wet your appetite'?
Den 10:26 torsdag den 13. marts 2014 skrev Martin Saurer <
martin.sau...@bluewin.ch>:
Hello all,
Many thanks for all the feedback and suggestions. Based upon your
feedback, there are three new videos which hopefully are better than
"Version 1.0".
1. Video is split up into three parts:
J in 10 minutes (1. Whet your appetite)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Q8_kYbTqhY
J in 10 minutes (2. Desktop Applications)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIvypQaQi8c
J in 10 minutes (3. Web Applications)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r815er6m6Ck
2. Background Sound/Music
Yes, I know, some people find this annoying/distracting/etc.
English is not my native language, so I think I don't speak it
good enough to produce a video/demo like this with spoken words.
Some years ago, people in my former company have produced some
video-demos with spoken comments (narration) (in German).
Some customers found this to be distracting, like some of you
feel about the background music.
So, it's difficult to meet the preferences of all the audiences.
=> At least in my production, I will keep the background sound,
but in the newest version of the video, the sound is more
ambient. (Hopefully not so _upbeat_ ;-)
=> If somebody is willing to add spoken words (narration) to
this video, please drop me a note. I will make the raw video
material available for download, so one can add his own voice.
3. I think my typing is not that bad, but Mr. AppleScript's
typing is far better ;-)
So I don't have to type the whole stuff again, to fix a
bug or make some enhancements.
Life can be that easy ;-)
4. The J Term in the new video was configured with a larger font
and less background.
5. There were very interesting suggestions on Euler Problem 20,
splitting the large integer into its digits:
a) 10&#.^:_1 ]!100x
b) "."0": !100x
c) ".,"0": !100x
d) '0123456789' i. ": !100x
Solution a: 0.00076 201600 (using ts)
Solution b+c: 0.00035 75648 (using ts)
Solution d: 0.00015 10944 (using ts) => Winner!
In J, there are often many different solutions to solve a problem.
After years, I'm still unsure (sometimes), which solution is the
best ;-)
6. In Euler Problem 1, I added Stefano's suggestions about
calculating the modulo of the whole array.
7. No more scrolling through source code!
I agree, this could be boring.
In the new video, I picked some interesting parts of the source
code, and executed them interactively in the JTerm window.
Anyway, after the interactive demonstration, the GUI applications
(Desktop/Qt and Web) are loaded/started to show the final
application in action.
8. Download links for the example scripts are now listed at the end
of the video.
9. Feedback is welcome.
Cheers
Martin
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