Thanks, I always enjoy reading about Eugene and about Ken. When I read Eugene's article I found myself comparing its length with the length of this thread, a matter more of how it talks than of what it talks about!
On 12/4/2011 5:11 AM, Roger Hui wrote: > The "Short" is from a famous quotation from [Ho51]: the life of man > solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. "[Ho51]" itself is an amusing > instance of the Y2K > problem<http://www.jsoftware.com/papers/eem/anecdotes.htm#y2k>. > Eugene's paper was written in 1987, a time when the conventional Y2K > problem was not yet on most people's horizons. The paper was presented at > the APL88 conference in Sydney, Australia. It was on the plane ride back > from Sydney that Ken and Eugene invented > fork<http://keiapl.org/rhui/remember.htm#fork0> > . > > > > On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 2:38 AM, Kip Murray<k...@math.uh.edu> wrote: > >> Is "Short" a hint? >> >> On 12/4/2011 4:30 AM, Roger Hui wrote: >>> Y'all should take a look at Eugene's paper *Life: Nasty, Brutish, and >> Short >>> [Ho51]*<http://www.jsoftware.com/papers/eem/life.htm>. What the paper >>> talks about seems similar to this thread. >>> >>> >>> >>> On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 7:34 PM, Ric Sherlock<tikk...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Great Henry! >>>> I had a brief go at finding an antibase solution but didn't get there. >>>> >>>> On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 1:00 PM, Henry Rich<henryhr...@nc.rr.com> >> wrote: >>>>> toss =: (dice =: (6 6 6#:12 145 157 185 197 215)<@:{"1 2 (#:i.6){' >>>>> o') {~ 2 10 ?@$ 6: >>>>> toss'' >>>>> +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+ >>>>> |o o|o o|o |o o|o o|o |o | |o o|o o| >>>>> | | o | |o o| o | o | | o | | | >>>>> |o o|o o| o|o o|o o| o| o| |o o|o o| >>>>> +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+ >>>>> |o o|o |o o|o |o |o o|o |o o| |o o| >>>>> |o o| o |o o| o | |o o| |o o| o |o o| >>>>> |o o| o|o o| o| o|o o| o|o o| |o o| >>>>> +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+ >>>>> >>>>> Henry Rich, whose @ will be pried from his cold dead fingers >>>> >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
