Hi Raul,
I am going back to see if I can find emails of yours to which I did not
respond, since you asked me to respond. You stated:
> Computer grammars are hard. People have been building specialized
> tools for dealing with grammar since the 1960s, and to this day
> most computer programmers do not understand how they work.
> Even people working with them often typically adopt stances
> based on an incomplete understanding.
>
> I will not say J is perfect, but I will say that Ken Iverson had a deeper
> understanding of computer syntax and grammar issues than a
> lot of people do.
I totally agree with this.
You stated:
> I very much agree with you that there are some deep, unresolved
> questions having to do with the grammar of S -- and they would
> have to be resolved before an implementation would be possible.
The grammar of tacit S is identical to the grammar of explicit J, which
I think you will agree is well tested.
Don
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