amusingly, COM lives on:
"Under the covers, Windows 8 uses a combination of the decades-old
Component Object Model (COM), the ECMA-335 standard for a Common Language
Interface (CLI) to define metadata around API calls"
http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1853667&seqNum=3
On 27 Nove
I agree. There is a lot more to programming than functions. There is also
the ability to access the outside world. As a language for algorithms, I
prefer APL. As a tool to access the rest of the world, I prefer VB.
There are two forms of VB. The early version provided for exploiting
objects.
Sorry, my bad - I suffered a brain fart... Thanks for the correction.
On 2012/12/02 13:28 , Roger Hui wrote:
The tree representation is 5!:4 and it was implemented in v4.0, 1991-11-23
http://www.jsoftware.com/help/release/status.htm#v4.0
Also described in comp.lang.apl on 1991-09-28 (at the tim
The tree representation is 5!:4 and it was implemented in v4.0, 1991-11-23
http://www.jsoftware.com/help/release/status.htm#v4.0
Also described in comp.lang.apl on 1991-09-28 (at the time the J Forum did
not exist).
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.apl/browse_thread/thread/5f1c1df7bd72fe51
> The Tree view is great too (was it really there in 602??)
>
Yes -
From ... j701/addons/docs/help/release/status.htm#v5.1
Changes in Version 5.1, 1992 07 28
...
5!:5 implemented
...
Browsing the release notes, (Rel) on the DoJ menu, is a good history lesson.
On 2012/12/01
The issue becomes - are we writing scripts/libraries to showcase J to
beginners or to provide performant utilities for users?
The tacit formulation of the same algorithm is twice as fast and 3 times
leaner (and I'm sure could be improved). The original version was written
to make it similar to the
A language you know is more useful than a language you don't
knowregardless of its intrinsic virtues.
On 12/2/2012 9:32 AM, Joey K Tuttle wrote:
Also, people still have nostalgic memories of BASIC, e.g.
http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/books/2012/11/computer_programming_10_print_chr_20
Also, people still have nostalgic memories of BASIC, e.g.
http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/books/2012/11/computer_programming_10_print_chr_205_5_rnd_1_goto_10_from_mit_press_reviewed.html
On 2012/12/02 01:49 , Roger Hui wrote:
I don't think that is true, either the long or the short ver
BASIC is the programming language that was popularized when personal
computing became common. It and the popular programming languages today are
all essentially scalar. They handle one element at a time and use loops to
handle arrays. APL, J and a few other languages running around today are
array
On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 5:43 AM, Alex Giannakopoulos
wrote:
> I am not sure Ian really meant BASIC when he said "people who know BASIC".
> Perhaps the gist of what he meant was "people who want to do basic
> programming".
When I wrote that, I immediately tried qualifying it: "And again for
Fortran
The down side of Visual Basic was the cost of the program. It was quite
expensive to buy and I didn't. All the things I wrote are still on my laptop
and useless.
Sadly, many of the things I wrote in early versions of J stopped working in
later versions. I keep hoping someday to rescue some of t
After quite a few years teaching J, I taught Basic for a semester (poorly). I
struggled to consider teaching the High School course in Advanced Placement
Computer Science and could make no sense of it and declined the "opportunity".
I did find that several years of teaching Visual Basic at a two
I don't think that is true, either the long or the short version. In
general, knowing bad programming helps you appreciate good programming when
you see it; the people for whom this is not true would have trouble
learning good programming regardless. IMO.
On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 1:25 AM, R.E. Bo
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/e/edsgerdijk201164.html
or, as I heard him say much shorter: "Basic ruins your life".
R.E. Boss
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