Yes - I don't mind so much the non-J programming I have to do in R.
On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 10:40 AM, Vijay Lulla <[email protected]> wrote:
> Devon,
> Not only short snippets like the ones you mention, but on projecteuler.net
> ,
> but also the distinctive display of information in such posts increased my
> curiosity. I distinctly remember the first time I saw some boxed items, I
> thought "Nice! this programmer must have some utility/program to generate
> such output". But I kept on seeing this so often (in J submissions by
> different authors) that I thought that it might be something that J
> programmers just do. Regardless, it deserved further examination. And,
> boy am I glad that I persisted. Box display is another aspect of J that I
> absolutely love. I now use J to create boxed displays for use in my
> documents (primarily txt or html) to demonstrate some concepts in other
> languages. For e.g. I used { (>:i.3);>:i.3 to demonstrate 2-dimensional
> indexing for use in R.
>
> J (and R too) make interactive use so much fun. And this is the primary
> reason I like these languages so much.
> Thanks,
> Vijay.
>
> On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 8:36 AM, Devon McCormick <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi Vijay -
> >
> > Thanks for the sharing your views. It's always good to hear from new
> > enthusiasts. Those of us who have been doing this for a long time
> > sometimes feel like we're shouting into the wind, so it's good to feel
> that
> > the community's efforts are appreciated.
> >
> > I especially appreciate your acknowledgement that much of what we do in
> > other languages and environments constitutes wasting our time on
> minutiae.
> > I have to work in other languages because of work - though I do some J
> here
> > as well - and feel very keenly the time wasted when I have to code up a
> > five- or ten-character J solution in ten or twenty lines of code.
> >
> > I was recently perusing the J contributions on "dailyprogrammer" (e.g.
> >
> >
> http://www.reddit.com/r/dailyprogrammer/comments/2rfae0/20150105_challenge_196_practical_exercise_ready/
> > )
> > from "Godspiral" and, comparing the his few lines of J to others' pages
> of
> > C++ or Java, I remain astonished that this disparity doesn't raise more
> > curiosity about J.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Devon
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 9:04 PM, Vijay Lulla <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi all,
> > > I came across the below article by the way of Hacker News.
> > > http://brookeallen.com/pages/archives/1234
> > >
> > > I'd like to share a couple of my views about J community. I came
> across
> > J
> > > sometime in 2012 by the way of projecteuler.net. As I learned a little
> > bit
> > > of the J language I realized that I was spending (wasting?) a lot of
> time
> > > on minutiae in other languages/environments! I kept at it and now J is
> > my
> > > favorite language and I use it almost daily. There are a couple of
> > things
> > > very unique about J: the awesome community, and the amount of
> interesting
> > > material that this community has generated.
> > >
> > > I'm also very impressed with the community's interest in always tying
> > many
> > > lessons/insights to its roots. This is unique, at least IMO to J
> > (probably
> > > to APL too but I couldn't say since I've not used it). And the more I
> > read
> > > about people like Ken Iverson, Ian Sharp, and Eugene McDonnell I'm even
> > > more impressed. These guys could not help being geniuses...but they
> > chose
> > > to be excellent human beings (Ken Iverson's gesture of dingy bills
> > > [mentioned in Beginnings in http://keiapl.org/rhui/remember.htm], Ian
> > > Sharp's overall attitude [as listed in
> > > http://www.jsoftware.com/papers/IPSA50.htm], and McDonnell's efforts
> to
> > > make J accessible/fun)! I don't think I can find better role models
> (in
> > > programming and real life) to emulate.
> > >
> > > I don't know why I felt compelled to share this with all of you. I
> > guess,
> > > just to tell you that all your work/efforts have impacted me, very
> > > positively, and I appreciate it, as I'm sure many others do, very much.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Vijay.
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> > >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Devon McCormick, CFA
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