> I don't have the exact reference, but Ken wrote > something like "the function table is a simple > and familiar concept, made alarming in APL > by being called 'outer product'."
Found it: Revisiting Rough Spots, March 1994. http://www.jsoftware.com/papers/rough.htm In APL the treatment of the outer product was deferred to Chapter 40 of an early manual because of its perceived difficulty; such treatment was eventually rectified by the remark of a high-school teacher (Linda Alvord) who said that these were simply the addition and multiplication tables of elementary arithmetic rendered alarming by the adoption of a term from tensor analysis. ----- Original Message ----- From: Roger Hui <[email protected]> Date: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 21:16 Subject: Re: [Jchat] Does anyone out there have a megapower PC to answer my 'out of memory' question To: Chat forum <[email protected]> > In case you didn't notice: > > ! factorial > !. fit > !: foreign > > f, f, and f, get it? > > As for conjunction, verb, adverb, etc., the use of terms > from natural languages can be helpful. For example, > "adverb" is easier for "the man on the street" than > the formidable "operator". > > I don't have the exact reference, but Ken wrote > something like "the function table is a simple > and familiar concept, made alarming in APL > by being called 'outer product'." > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: DIETER ENSSLEN <[email protected]> > Date: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 10:02 > Subject: Re: [Jchat] Does anyone out there have a megapower PC > to answer my 'out of memory' question > To: Chat forum <[email protected]> > > > Thanks Ken > > > > I like the ts time and space explanation, i thought it was a > > timing function. > > > > all the rest is Greek to me still, all of it. > > '(6!:2) Execute. Seconds to execute sentence y.' what > sentence y.? > > > > foreign?? at least it is not alien, ha ha > > conjunctions?? > > > > can't we do J without all this language stuff? > > > > thanks ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
