James C Field wrote:
>  [KEI] spent the rest of his life seeking to improve on [APL] with J.
>  Are we in a "string theory" battle with the edge conditions of J?

Have you seen my parlor trick?  Here's what I asked Don Watson in the context 
of J as an improvement over SMN:

>  What is the result of the following sentence? 
>         +/ 2 ^ - i. _
> 
>  If you want to ask the same question via email, using your preferred 2D 
> notation, how do you do it?

In the context of J as an improvement over APL, I'll pose you a similar 
challenge:  If you want to ask the same question via email,
using your preferred symbolic notation, how would you do it?

-Dan

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