Re: [Jprogramming] Programming puzzle: shortest valid pangrammic program

2014-05-19 Thread Dan Bron
essing errors (using :: or try. or whatever). In other words: don't ruin the fun! -Dan - Original Message --- Subject: [Jprogramming] Programming puzzle: shortest valid pangrammic program From: Dan Bron Date: Mon, 19 May 2014 12:01:38 -0400 To: programm..

Re: [Jprogramming] Programming puzzle: shortest valid pangrammic program

2014-05-19 Thread Raul Miller
Note that there are multiple concepts of "use". You might want to be more specific about that. For example, here's an expression which uses every ascii character: 128{a. You might have meant where every printable ascii character appears in the script of the program. But that raises another qu

[Jprogramming] Programming puzzle: shortest valid pangrammic program

2014-05-19 Thread Dan Bron
Write the shortest valid J program that uses all printable ASCII characters. More specifically, write a J program which: - Doesn't raise an error - Returns something other than itself (e.g. 'abcde...!@$%' doesn't count; a ;: c / @ e. i: .. doesn't count, etc). - Uses each of the following char