I have always thought programming was more making a computer do what you want. So building a spread sheet or creating a word document is in a way programming. A lot of today's programmers build web pages and many never even use the traditional programming tools of ifs and loops. I wired boards for a 407 way back when. It was certainly programming. But nothing like most of today's scalar languages. The parallelism in the board probably made languages like APL and J easier for me. I would suspect that your weaving cards, where lots of things happen at once and in parallel helped you too.
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 4:19 PM, mijj <[email protected]> wrote: > way back in my youth, i a part time job in a weaving mill filled with > mechanical looms. They still used strung-together, wooden punched cards > to control the weave. > > (while we're on the subject, the punched cards for looms were direct > forerunners of Holerith cards, weren't they?) > > so .. yeh .. a J expression reminds me more of a factory process (eg. > loom) than a typical logic bound program. > > On 2011-07-21 22:25, Brian Schott wrote: > > Very interesting proposition, miij. Are you a knitter/weaver? > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
