Hi Jan-Pieter, I really appreciate your help and info! Good to know, that the resources I found are still helpful to me and valid source of information.
Cheers! Meino On 07/04 03:14, Jan-Pieter Jacobs wrote: > Hi Meino, > > I wouldn't worry too much about changing syntax; most of it remained the > same, except for cosmetic changes (e.g. not using x. and y. for arguments > names but x, y) and behind-the-scenes implementation aspects (faster, more > special code, in-place operations). Those generally don't change much when > programming. > > I liked Learning J a lot as well when learning, as well as JforC. I would > just use those, and try out what you read, and check the release notes when > things would not work out as expected, where non-backward compatible > changes are flagged as incompatible changes. > > NuVoc is the de-facto documentation that should be up to date with the > current implementation. > > That said, although recently a lot has been happening for J, in my opinion, > most of the (reasonably recent) material remains valid. > > Good luck, > > Jan-Pieter > > On Mon, 4 Jul 2022, 14:45 , <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > on the internet (some reddit post it was I think) I found a very nice > > looking "Reference Card For J", which refers to J 602. > > > > There are some other tutorials, books and such, which are based on previous > > versions of J. > > > > At the current point of my knowledge about J (read: bloody newbie) I > > cannot estimate, whether it makes sense to learn from such sources or > > not - I want to avoid to "unlearn" things later. > > > > Especially this > > https://www.learningj.com/book.htm#toc > > book I like very muchm since it shows things the way I normally like to > > learn new things. > > > > Question extracted from all these lengthy words is: > > What way of evolving J does ? Adding more things and keeping > > everything backward compatible (so I need only to add new things later) > > or "super high dynamic" :) which means: Every day the syntax is totally > > changed and verbs older than a month will be thrown out and replaced by > > totally diffent verbs...and I have to unlearn everything in a 14 day > > cycle... :) ;) 8) > > (I exaggerate here just for fun! ) > > > > Cheers! > > Meino > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
