It is funny how he describes the audience and no interest in the subject. the shape of a zero is empty but the shape of an empty is zero because the rank of a vector is one and the rank of a one is a zero and …
APL was invented by Dr. Kenneth Iverson; APL works back to front, well not really, well sort of …” - Björn Helgason gsm:6985532 skype:gosiminn On 7.5.2014 14:43, "Roger Hui" <[email protected]> wrote: > As a matter of fact, I had two glasses in the vicinity of where I slept > last night, one empty and one full. But it's not for the reasons you > described. > > My favorite joke/story is > http://www.jsoftware.com/papers/APLQA.htm#APL_course1 . Long but > worthwhile. It's an APL story but it would have worked even better in J, > given our emphasis on rank. > > Two other amusing ones: > http://www.jsoftware.com/papers/APLQA.htm#18pt (you have to read the > immediately preceding non-funny anecdote for this to make sense) > http://www.jsoftware.com/papers/APLQA.htm#IC2013 > > > > > > On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 7:19 AM, Dan Bron <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > A programmer puts two glasses on his bedside table before going to > > sleep. > > A full one, in case he gets thirsty, and an empty one, in case he > > doesn't. > > > > Found at: http://stackoverflow.hewgill.com/questions/234/075.html > > > > So what's your favorite computer/programming joke? > > > > -Dan > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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
