I'd say any publicity for practical uses of (;:) is good. Even if only because it's Alan Turing's 100th anniversary (celebrated this week by Nature http://www.nature.com/nature/current_issue.html)
APL's "world-in-a-primitive" is Domino ⌹ (%.) --hailed as the jewel in its crown. I was once offered the tapes of the keystroke log of a sizeable IBM APL-coding shop for research. In about 5 years, Domino had been used precisely twice. On both occasions as the fill char in a histogram. I guess an APL counterpart of (;:) would have suffered the same fate. Not many people know how to program a Turing Machine nowadays. (But it has a great future in biocomputing.) On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 4:57 PM, David Ward Lambert <b49p23t...@stny.rr.com> wrote: > >> From: Don Guinn <dongu...@gmail.com> >> Subject: [Jprogramming] Sequential Machine >> To: Programming forum <programming@jsoftware.com> >> Message-ID: >> <caecakcmyaatsiuxjrt+u4q5bexrqg6utsurksb57m3a_qaj...@mail.gmail.com> > > I finally decided to "master" sequential machine. The report of my > experience is posted in the new vocabulary page > http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Vocabulary/semico > > nuvoc > http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/ControlNuVoc > > As always, please enhance, rewrite, whatnot at your will. > Is a sequential machine tutorial useful at the > Jsoftware Conference - 23/24 July 2012 - Toronto ? > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm