On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 10:59 AM, Dan Bron <[email protected]> wrote: > What makes you say it has not been an entirely positive thing?
For example, J has implemented interactivity using "one sentence = one line" which while simple, causes problems for longer sentences. For example, since J's interpreter's behavior is defined almost entirely in terms of its interactive character, writing J scripts (in the sense of files which might begin with #!/usr/local/bin/j and which are designed to be used from the OS command line rather than J's command line) is more complicated than in most other languages. For example some parts of the J language are not a part of the J language (a variety of control structures fall out of this category). I am not sure if I could think up other examples, but the general gist here is that acceptable tradeoffs are still tradeoffs. -- Raul ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
