Hi Roger; The J-as-escape-from-APL rationale goes without saying. Sorry for forgetting, and thanks for the pointer.
later... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Roger Hui" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "General forum" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, March 09, 2007 4:06 PM Subject: Re: [Jgeneral] Feb 2007 issue of Dr Dobbs > I don't know! I do J to escape that kind of stuff. > All I can tell you is that it looks OK on my > machine. > > Whatever APL font you install, if > http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/EditingGuidelines/Character_Palette_--_APL > looks OK then the Life paper should look OK. > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: ramacd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Friday, March 9, 2007 11:48 am > Subject: Re: [Jgeneral] Feb 2007 issue of Dr Dobbs > > > Hi Roger; > > > > Sorry if this is a STFW but what font do I need to install to see > > all the > > APL? > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Roger Hui" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "General forum" <[email protected]> > > Sent: Friday, March 09, 2007 1:08 AM > > Subject: Re: [Jgeneral] Feb 2007 issue of Dr Dobbs > > > > > > > The text of "Life: Nasty, Brutish, and Short" can be > > > found at http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Doc/Life > > > > > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: Eugene McDonnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Date: Wednesday, March 7, 2007 10:24 pm > > > Subject: Re: [Jgeneral] Feb 2007 issue of Dr Dobbs > > > > > > > > > > > On Mar 7, 2007, at 7:57 AM, ramacd wrote: > > > > > > > > > The article "Life: nasty, Brutish and Short" by(?) Eugene > > > > > McDonnell, in an > > > > > old Quote Quad, I think, gives many one-liners as well. > > IIRC, it > > > > > > > > > uses the > > > > > Sharp APL cut operator, which is very similar to the ;. > > > > conjunction > > > > > in J. > > > > > This separates out the 3 3 subarrays, and you can just apply the > > > > > > > > > life/death > > > > > verb to each subarray. > > > > > > > > The APL88 Conference Proceedings (Sydney, Australia; APL Quote > > > > Quad, > > > > 18.2, December 1987) has my discussion of a "Life: Nasty, Brutish > > > > and > > > > Short" solution to the game of life program problem [pp 242-247], > > > > with thanks to Donald Knuth and Roger Hui. The final N,B and S > > > > solution uses just 9 tokens. > > > > > > > > Is it really 19 years since I wrote it? It was lots of fun. > > > > > > > > Eugene > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
