While this topic seems to have got wider let me add one more point.
Several have mentioned the effects of bad coding practices, whether J or APL (or the other pornographies). A large part of that is caused by how we (schools/Universities) teach software writing. Somewhat like learning to write English it seems to take a competant reader to look at the code. Almost none of our institutions have the man power to do that, I even suspect there are graduating people who have never had their software looked at.
In one automated software grading of software the software had to follw a rigid format in order for the 'grading software' to work.
Unfortunate Ralph S ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
