Programming it Nial, code looks not as clean as J, either.
Only if J would support Chinese some day... I even tried to wrap it in
Smalltalk for a while but failed since I know very little about the j dll.
emptist wrote:
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> Nial seems to be of the APL/J family but not as complete as J. Something
> particularly interests me is I can define user function in Chinese and can
> use Chinese variable names too. (Both on Windows XP).
>
> 數 := 23 34
> 均 IS OPERATION A {sum A / tally A}
> 均 數
> 28.5
>
> Another one is the website says the speed may compare with C (I've not
> seen any benchmarks yet).
>
>
> David Ward Lambert wrote:
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>> The C and J languages have no built in functions. IO provided through
>> the libraries or foreign conjunctions. The nial averaging example
>> appears to have a built in sum function. I find this akin to comparing
>> unix with windows. unix provides a command line accessible tool box
>> enabling wondrous transformations whereas windows makes easy those
>> operations the programmers chose for us, all else being immensely
>> cumbersome.
>>
>> (Please pardon typos. Message composed with kitten on keyboard.)
>>
>>> Nial language (empist 2010-AUG-25)
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