Meant more as a professional opinion. Yes, I can adjust the code if I feel the need. Thanks for the suggestions.
In emacs you can use narrow-to-region to do search and replace within a specific region. Blake McBride On 1/2/12, Raul Miller <rauldmil...@gmail.com> wrote: > Readability depends on audience. > > And this is not the least readable C possible. See ioccc if you want > examples of obfuscated C. > > That said, there are a number of mechanical transformations that can > help you, if you are uncomfortable with the format used in J's > sources, you can use gcc -E, an editor and indent to re-arrange it > into a more traditional format. > > And, of course, you can use most any text editor's search&replace > feature. (But as far as I know, even emacs does not have a > search&replace that follows C's naming and scoping rules for the scope > of the search and replace. That's an feature which I have only seen > in commercial tools.) > > -- > Raul > > On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 6:11 AM, Blake McBride <bl...@mcbride.name> wrote: >> 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
