Has anyone gone through and tried to identify a "minimal J core language"?
Dan Bron's PrimitivePrimitives wiki page seems like a step in this direction, but it's not really focussed on identifying a core J lexicon. For example, the | dyad can be defined as #:"0 or, if you're not concerned with issues of rank you can simply use #: to replace | In other words, by "minimal J lexicon" I am concerned not with identifying the "simplest words" but identifying the "smallest set of words which encompass J's computational model". Also, perhaps obviously, monads need different treatment from dyads -- I'm thinking of this more from a didactic perspective than as a practical exercise. Even so, I'm wondering if someone else might have already approached this issue. Thanks, -- Raul ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
