On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Matthew Brand <[email protected]> wrote: > There is a story about a guy who wanted to get rid of his old fridge. > He put the fridge outside with a note on it, "Please take this fridge, > full working order but no longer needed." > > Nobody took it for about a week. > > He put a sign on it, "For sale: $50" ... and somebody had stolen it by > the end of the day. > > Not sure whether it is a true story :-)
If it's true it hasn't happened here in Budapest. Anything metallic disappears quickly even if the machine part no longer works. On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 4:03 PM, Roger Hui <[email protected]> wrote: > If you have the time and energy, see > http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Essays/From_APL_to_J I have read some of these earlier. I particularly liked the first few articles which tell how Ken has started to invent APL, showing how some unnecessary primitives (like the extra transpose operators) have disappeared early. > From J to APL would have to be written by someone else. :-) > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Roger Hui <[email protected]> > Date: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 22:46 > Subject: Re: [Jchat] No More APL > To: Chat forum <[email protected]> > >> There is no "APL for the J Programmer", but >> "J for the APL Programmer" should provide >> some information: >> >> http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Doc/J4APL I have read some of the documentation of IBM APL so I at least have some grasp of what classical APL was like and how it differed from current J. I don't want to learn much more about actual APL programming right now because I'm happy with J for what I'm using it for, but I'd like to know what modern APL has so that if I find in the future that I really need some features in an APL-like language, I know where I can look. Ambrus ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
