hi dieter, im a bit confused and concerned.
i'm don't understand what the problem is. i've used professionally all the products you mentioned and a decade ago i was introduced to J and the transition wasn't as confusing as your making it out to be. i kept thinking back on how it was for me. the biggest hurdle for me is the paradigm shift. shift from oop to procedural programming; to array programming. what really threw me is the use of left and right arguments, and particlarly verb trains. heck, im still a mess when it comes to tacit programming. so it really throws me that you asking these questions. My boss, Dr. John Romagna, who I really admire has the following written on his calling card: "The right questions are more important than the right answers to the wrong questions." this has helped me and my wife in both our academic and professional life. whenever were going nowhere with a task or a project, we always notice that it is most often because we were asking the wrong questions. i had wanted to word this more strongly but I'm not that dehydrated yet (been sick for a week now). so please sit back. think again on what youre objectives are and come back and ask you questions again. i apologize if this offends you and my only excuse is being sick for so long that I'm irritable. good luck. r/alex Sent from my iPhone On Feb 27, 2010, at 7:07 AM, "DIETER ENSSLEN" <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Bjoern, > > I am just used to multiline 'programs' rather than 'verbs', with or > without line numbers. > > and files rather than scripts > > and one open file or workspace being there for programing and > execution and editing and saving and retrieving and working on it > again. > > but that script stuff should be doable, learnable, and gettng used > to, or I can just keep retyping and retyping multiline 'programs' as > I have been ever since I met J, because that works. > > thanks > > D > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
