ahh. I see. It appears they wrote C in the most APL-like way they could -- slightly unfortunate. In general, C is very readable. They succeeded in writing J in the least readable C possible.
Having said this, however, I still really, really appreciate J, the source availability of J, and those who made this possible!! Blake McBride On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 4:28 AM, Stefano Lanzavecchia <s...@apl.it> wrote: >> Being a long-time C programmer (in addition to an old-time APL >> programmer), I looked at the released source code to J701. It appears to > me >> that either the code was machine generated from some other source code or >> it has been obfuscated. Is this true? > > Neither: http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Essays/Incunabulum > > -- > Stefano Lanzavecchia > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
