Does j meet Borud's requirements?
* It has to be a "real" language. As in: a language that is
actually used by a significant number of people in paid jobs.
I'd like to know of (particularly science) jobs with j, please.
* No oddball or perversely domain-specific languages.
Do j's ()'s make it an oddball computer language?
lisp: symbol expands symbol.
(symbol) evaluates symbol
All other computer languages of which I'm aware:
() changes order of operation per elementary algebra.
j () changes order of operation per generalized college math.
Parsing j compared with other languages?
APL/360 has extraordinarily simple parsing rules.
RPN, forth, postscript stack based languages are common and
simple.
I'd place j's rules---while still simple---as a little more
difficult and numerous than these. On the one hand, j parses
differently from other main stream computer languages (the interpreter
requires part-of-speech, context, and rank), making j oddball among
computer languages. On the other hand, j is deliberately similar to
spoken languages. There being far more speakers than programmers, I
conclude therefor that all the other computer languages are the
oddballs.
> Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 16:30:50 -0500
> From: "PackRat" <[email protected]>
> Subject: [Jchat] J as a programming language for beginners?
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> Came across this on another list. J seems to fit the bill:
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> http://blog.borud.no/2010/07/programming-languages-for-beginners.html
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> What do you think?
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>
> Harvey
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