I have to say that I am a bit surprised how difficult it seems to learn some basic skills in order to get to use the labs/demos/helps.
Not to mention just the simple as I thought use of ijs. It has been explain very very carefully by many people and still it seems to be a mystery. Either the process of learning of starting to use J is much harder than I thought or something else is very wrong and I can not tell. I am about to give up on you too but maybe you are sincere and this just is so very very difficult. I am sensing a lack of basic understanding or trying to be difficult and I am not sure which. The question is are we learning from this or just wasting time. 2010/2/28 DIETER ENSSLEN <[email protected]>: > Dear Harvey, > > another impressive and kind opus!! The first part is great, the first and > easier part sinks in, the latter parts get too technical for now. > > then again, once you start talking verbs and nouns and all that other > language grammar stuff, and monads and dyads i start thinking of the triads. > > sorry > > someone mentioned exe recently too as well as ijs and ijx. Yes, it is nice to > have a clean ijs sheet with successful programs and comments. > > (philosophically J just seems to be bucking the trend towards easier and > easier communication a la wolfram | alpha, and the 10 odd year old trend > towards cas, and the easy play of i pad apps, as well as my decades old > mentors' to go with high powered easy to communicate with high level > languages where it is easy to determine what is going on). > > (My comment: the BASIC of 1982 is easy, and the hope was that it would have > gotten easier and yet more powerful and faster with still more functions, > color, and a big display.) > > No question, j is intriguing, as are all you j ers. > > Once again, very many kind thanks > > D > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > -- Björn Helgason, Verkfræðingur Fornustekkum II 781 Hornafirði Po Box 127,801 Selfoss , t-póst: [email protected] gsm: +3546985532 sími: +3544781286 http://groups.google.com/group/J-Programming Tæknikunnátta höndlar hið flókna, sköpunargáfa er meistari einfaldleikans góður kennari getur stigið á tær án þess að glansinn fari af skónum /|_ .-----------------------------------. ,' .\ / | Með léttri lund verður | ,--' _,' | Dagurinn í dag | / / | Enn betri en gærdagurinn | ( -. | `-----------------------------------' | ) | (\_ _/) (`-. '--.) (='.'=) ♖♘♗♕♔♙ `. )----' (")_(") ☃☠ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
