It is said before and I say it again: (well formulated) J looks a lot like poetry. Advantage of J (over poetry) is: it can be parsed and from that the aim (and method) of the writer can be discovered. Besides that, it is not so much the way of using J, it's more the ability to think array-wise that determines the solution. Prerequisite of course is some knowledge of J, such as not confusing a dyad verb with the monad verb which uses the same symbol (like 'key' and 'oblique').
R.E. Boss > -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- > Van: programming-boun...@jsoftware.com [mailto:programming- > boun...@jsoftware.com] Namens Björn Helgason > Verzonden: zaterdag 10 december 2011 10:51 > Aan: Programming forum > Onderwerp: Re: [Jprogramming] Oblique Road to Success! > > You may sit with a task to do something. > > You try out various things and after all kinds of trials and errors you > wind up with one line you are very proud of after all your time and effort > as well as years of experience of programming. > > You present this line and give no explanation of what it is really doing > besides input and output. > > You can not seriously expect others or at least not inexperienced users to > understand and read that line. > > Those kinds of lines without explanations do often no good, > > 2011/12/10 Don Guinn <dongu...@gmail.com> > > > Why is it that we have all kinds of courses teaching how to write programs > > but none for reading? > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
