On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 5:12 PM, Mark Niemiec <[email protected]> wrote: > One problem with APL (that also exists in J) is the temptation to write > extremely long "one-liners" that encompass the entire solution to a > problem within a single line of code.
This is not unique to J and APL. I have seen analogous cases in other languages (for example: C). The difference is that this kind of thing can be harder to recognize in C -- if you understand a clause you might mistakenly think you could understand the sentence, even when that sentence is hundreds of lines long and does stuff that you have not even thought to look for. -- Raul ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
