I myself have been on a crusade to replace "cannot" by "can not".
----- Original Message ----- From: Kip Murray <[email protected]> Date: Thursday, September 3, 2009 17:59 Subject: Re: [Jchat] Description of J To: Chat forum <[email protected]> > It's time to rid ourselves of the apostrophe. Its rules > are too hard to keep > straight, and who needs it anyhow? > > Sherlock, Ric wrote: > > I quite liked this description of J from The Encyclopedia of > Computer Languages: > > > > A very high-level general-purpose language, partially > derivative and partially a rethink of APL, with strong emphasis > on functional programming and array processing. > > > > Purely functional with lexical scope and more conventional > control structures, plus several new concepts such as function > rank and function arrays. > > > > J was designed and developed by Ken Iverson and Roger Hui, and > implemented by Iverson Software Inc.(ISI). J is distinguished by > it's simple and consistent rules, a large set of built-in > functions, powerful facilities for defining new operations, and > a general and systematic treatment of arrays. It is ideal for > complex analytical work, modeling, and RAD ( Rapid Application > Development).> > > http://hopl.murdoch.edu.au/showlanguage.prx?exp=1558&language=J ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
