[Edu-sig] still admiring J

2018-03-23 Thread Wes Turner
On Friday, March 23, 2018, kirby urner wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 1:33 AM, Wes Turner wrote: > >> >> xarray.Dataset is n-dimensional >> https://xarray.pydata.org/en/stable/ >> >> From a tweet a few days ago https://twitter.com/westurner/ >> status/973058715149578240 : >> >> > ​Excellent

Re: [Edu-sig] still admiring J

2018-03-23 Thread kirby urner
On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 1:33 AM, Wes Turner wrote: > > xarray.Dataset is n-dimensional > https://xarray.pydata.org/en/stable/ > > From a tweet a few days ago https://twitter.com/westurner/ > status/973058715149578240 : > > ​Excellent pointers! I anticipate a steady stream of new math teachers (s

[Edu-sig] still admiring J

2018-03-23 Thread Wes Turner
On Friday, March 23, 2018, kirby urner wrote: > > Greetings edu-siggers! > > Way back in the archives you'll find me extolling a language known as J, > by Kenneth Iverson, his son Eric, and Roger Hui. I never met any of these > guys in person, but knew of Iverson through APL, which I discovered a

[Edu-sig] still admiring J

2018-03-22 Thread kirby urner
Greetings edu-siggers! Way back in the archives you'll find me extolling a language known as J, by Kenneth Iverson, his son Eric, and Roger Hui. I never met any of these guys in person, but knew of Iverson through APL, which I discovered at Princeton, and fell in love with. Iverson helped me squi