> On Nov 27, 2017, at 10:50 AM, Andrew Dabrowski <[email protected]> wrote: > > I didn't say it was a big problem, it's just a slight problem but one that > came up when I was trying to do something very simple. That's what worries > me: I can't write even simple programs without using what seem like kludges > and workarounds. No doubt after years of practice those would come to seem > natural to me and programming in J would be a snap, as has happened to me to > some extent with Perl. But Perl I was forced to use, J I have the option of > placing in the Museum of Brilliant but Useless Languages, next to Haskell.
I’m sure after we master J, having to program without rank is going to make all other programming languages seem like much bigger kludges. And I think you’re taking this one thing rather more seriously than is strictly necessary; even in languages that permit me, I almost never wind up with nullary functions. I bet if you check, you’ll see they’re uncommon in your code too. There’s usually something I want to calculate with… but then again, I have written thousands of lines of Haskell that actually do useful things. -- Daniel Lyons ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
