Dr Schild ably and succintly expresses a glaring need we've all felt in our various ways. Dan answers for us all, I imagine, in admitting that the J community does not have a wholly satisfactory answer to this, in the form of a 1-stop page to go to, or a single all-embracing package to load.
There have been several bites at this particular cherry, and the morsels are strewn all over the j wiki. I doubt even a Google search of the latter will enable a newcomer to find them all or recognise their significance once found. For my own instruction, I've started writing a "roadmap" to what's there: http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Guides/Tacit_to_explicit_roadmap It is unfinished, and Dr Schild's request provides me with my new year resolution: to finish what I've started. There are two major omissions to the above "road map", where the road just falls off the map: 1. Henry Rich's brand new "dissect" tool... http://www.jsoftware.com/pipermail/programming/2012-December/030728.html 2. Zsban Ambrus's "tte" tool (=tacit-to-explicit), a version of which I'm comprehensively testing prior to releasing it as an add-on. Expect me to finish this around end-January. At present I'm floundering around in a snowdrift centering on the best way to explicate expressions containing Atop (@), also Rank ("). On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 2:00 PM, Dan Bron <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't know of any such paper. But it certainly sounds like a worthwhile > project for the new year. An explanation of how 13 : works would provide a > nice starting point. > > There are some resources on reading (as opposed to writing) tacit expressions > on the wiki, and recently some of the J Forums' finest published tools for > "explicating" tacit code (a sort of inverse to 13 : n). The respective > search functions (wiki and forumsearch) should locate these useful resources > quickly. I'd suggest you use the Wiki's full text search; I find the > titles-only search too limited. > > -Dan > > PS: I'd normally give more specific and definitive pointers, but at the > moment I'm on vacation, sitting on the veranda, overlooking the Caribbean > sea, and contemplating fishing strategies. Strong competition for J work. > I'm sure I'll be more productive when I return home, and the cold New York > winter keeps me inside. Until then, my best wishes to everyone for a happy > and fruitful New Year. > > > On Dec 30, 2012, at 4:50 AM, "Dr. Heinz Schild" > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Is there a paper that comprehensively explains the development of tacit >> phrases? Something like this could help to actally make J a "math and data >> playground" for the iPad. Perhaps a readable documentation of the algorithm >> behind the adverb 13: would do for a start. >> Regards >> Heinz Schild >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> 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
