i'm not really thinking in terms of the technical definition of the word "programming" .. more what the word evokes. Ie. being in the mindset of the machine rather than the information.
On 2011-07-21 23:30, Don Guinn wrote: > 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
