"Deep down in their hearts, programmers want to read and write terse code." So begins Gavin Grover in a blog he posted in June. In short order, though, he qualifies that this is not true enough to amplify the popularity of J. Why not? He never really develops much of a theory, there, but it seems to boil down to it being possible to have too much of a good thing.
http://gavingrover.blogspot.com/2008/06/future-of-programming-chinese.html His basic idea here strikes me as very engaging, and perhaps sound. If it is sound, I'm confident that the benefit is higher for the Iverson language family than for any other languages, because here the benefits of reducing names to pure symbols are maximized. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
