Why would matrix inversion be the "jewel in the crown of APL"? -Dan
On Feb 25, 2012, at 5:58 PM, Ian Clark <earthspo...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
