> 5!:5 does not always serialize in a form that ". can digest. Raul, can you give me an example of that, please?
I have released code which assumes it does. (At least, 5!:6, for which I suppose you'd say the same?) On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 3:14 PM, Raul Miller <rauldmil...@gmail.com> wrote: > By "ipc" I think he means what I think is Q's . > > In Q, the "natural representation" of any item is a serialized version > -- evaluating it will recover the original item. This is not the case > in J -- for example 99x gets displayed as 99 but: > > 99 -&(^~) 99x > _3.98353e182 > > Anyways, if I understand Q properly (or maybe it was K), it will ship > a sentence off to another interpreter using . and the result is the > result from that other interpreter. And, even if I do not have the > syntax exactly right, the underlying point is that Q/K it's fairly > simple to delegate processing to a small farm of machines. This can > be useful, for example, when very large (multiple terabyte) data > structure are spread out across multiple machines. > > I believe that the usefulness of this ties in with Q's support for > tree data structures as well as triggers and dependencies. > > J does not currently have anything like that. And, for that matter, > 5!:5 does not always serialize in a form that ". can digest. > > -- > Raul > > > On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 9:40 AM, Devon McCormick <devon...@gmail.com> wrote: >> If by "ipc" you mean tcp/ip, J does support it. See "Studio/Socket >> Driver", "Studio/Sockets and the Internet", and "Scripts/Socket System" on >> the wiki (www.jsoftware.com/jwiki). >> >> On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 5:46 AM, Kim Kuen Tang <kuent...@vodafone.de> wrote: >> >>> ... >>> * Q also supports ipc which i cannot find in J. >>> ... >>> >> >> -- >> Devon McCormick, CFA >> ^me^ at acm. >> org is my >> preferred e-mail >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> 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
