The other day I noticed a quote in the lab J By Point & Click: "Ken Iverson put it this way: In J, when you want to move the army from Philadelphia to New York, you say just that: move the army from Philadelphia to New York. In a scalar language, you say, Go to every soldier, and move that soldier to New York." which I remembered when I read http://www.technologyreview.com/view/539761/a-programming-language-for-robot -swarms/ . Especially where it says "The opposing method is a top down approach in which the swarm is controlled as a whole." and "(...)the absence of a standardised programming language for swarms is a significant barrier to future progress (...) "
Hear, hear. R.E. Boss ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
