I have found programmers to be extremely hostile to J. I do not know where that comes from. It is very strange.
It is like sitting next to a man almost dying of thirst who has only a moist sponge to suck on and you offer him a glass of water, but he says, "no thanks, I will continue to suck on the sponge ... that is what all the others did before they died of thirst, nobody else is drinking water. Besides, I don't want to have to teach the next guy how to drink water from a glass, he will already be trained to suck on sponges." 2009/8/21 Steven Taylor <[email protected]>: > I had to share this. Using J I was recently able to solve an n-dimensional > mapping problem using a J array with a shape vector. The solution needed 4 > operations. Moving this back to the C / C# world the other developer > couldn't see that it was a complete solution. Instead he is now busy > recreating this in an inefficient tree, or as I suggested, if it must be > this way, go ahead and use a hash map. > "This isn't the way you do it in .net", he said. "You need references and > pointers", he continued. In his own words he wanted to go for a "zero > intelligence solution"... but it seems to me more like, "zero intelligence > but how can I use all the fancy new toys to make it more complex". Oh, and > substitute "more complex" with "more maintainable" to > be politically correct. > > --Steven > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
