Matthew Brand wrote: > Thanks Morten that is very helpful.
Glad you found it useful! > Incidentally, my reasons for learning J rather than APL (which I have > never used) were: > 1. The ascii I promised not to respond to that :-) > 2. I thought that J was APL2.0 ( i.e. I thought it was an improved version of APL) It was, in 1990. But Dyalog APL itself only dates from 1983, and has been evolving steadily. With the OO features and dfns/dops, we have toyed with the idea of - but never had the guts to - call it "APL3" :-). > 3. It is free and easy to install True. Dyalog is only "cheap and easy to install" ;-) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
