Re: [Jprogramming] Understandable J

2014-05-19 Thread Eldon Eller
Doesn't a paragraph of explanation vitiate the terseness of J? On 05/19/2014 11:21 AM, Brian Schott wrote: Below is an example of monadic Note. I have no sense of how dyadic Note would help. Note 'How Note works' Note works likes this. Enter any text for a comment and when you are done, jus

Re: [Jprogramming] Slicing and dicing tables

2013-10-07 Thread Eldon Eller
Data are plural. On 10/07/2013 02:04 PM, Dan Bron wrote: Ganesh Rapolu Because the data is boxed, all comparisons must be boxed. This was very well put (one short sentence which both clarifies the problem and justifies the solution). -Dan -

Re: [Jprogramming] The farmer's fence

2013-02-24 Thread Eldon Eller
dia article does not come with enough concrete examples for me to figure out what it is that I do not understand. FYI, -- Raul On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 10:24 PM, Eldon Eller wrote: Old and senile as I am, this looks to me like a problem in calculus of variations.See, e.g., en. wikipedia.org/wi

Re: [Jprogramming] The farmer's fence

2013-02-23 Thread Eldon Eller
Old and senile as I am, this looks to me like a problem in calculus of variations.See, e.g., en. wikipedia.org/wiki/Calculus_of_variations. You are not likely to get the solution by guessing that the shape is elliptical, or catenary, or parabolic, etc. I am too old and lazy to try to solve it m

Re: [Jprogramming] Recursive programming (and scoping therein)

2013-02-20 Thread Eldon Eller
I fail to see what this discussion about closure has to do with J programming. The faultmay be entirely mine; I am an old man and an amateur programming. If this discussion is about J programming, please inform me of the connection. If not, I suggest that you guys get together and discuss this

Re: [Jprogramming] xkcd 356

2013-01-09 Thread Eldon Eller
This is gorgeous. Thank you. On 01/10/2013 04:24 AM, Donald Kelly wrote: This is the resistance between adjacent nodes. Up to today I couldn't handle non-adjacent nodes but have found what appears to be an elegant way to deal with it. This also assumes an infinite grid but would give good resul

Re: [Jprogramming] J v Python

2012-12-09 Thread Eldon Eller
Pray how is this debate related to J programming? On 12/09/2012 09:30 AM, William Tanksley, Jr wrote: Boyko Bantchev wrote: William Tanksley, Jr wrote: If your post was supposed to somehow disagree with my opinion, then I don't know how. "Let me know -- where did you teac

Re: [Jprogramming] @: and capped fork

2012-12-02 Thread Eldon Eller
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

Re: [Jprogramming] Print Custom Alphabet

2012-08-30 Thread Eldon Eller
This fails on some, but not all, illegal inputs: |:1j1#(25{.(u:,2#65 97+/i.26)(>:@i.}.[)])"0 '5' NB. ok |:1j1#(25{.(u:,2#65 97+/i.26)(>:@i.}.[)])"0 '100' NB. gratuitous line feeds