if your only tool is a hammer, all of your problems tend to look like nails.
This single letter tool belongs on the XO ...
it is highly cross platform + comes with a small footprint
it comes from the mind of a Turing Award* winner
* (a.k.a. computing's equivalent of the Nobel Prize)
that mind was a teacher
that teacher died at the keyboard at
83
composing a tutorial
(a.k.a.a lab)
for his language ...
it is: J
+/ 2 2
4
ajouter =. +/
ajouter 2 2
4
hinzufuegen =. ajouter
hinzufuegen 2 2
4
aggiungere =. ajouter
aggiungere 2 2
4
toevoegen =. ajouter
toevoegen 2 2
4
adicionar =. ajouter
adicionar 2 2
4
http://jsoftware.com/
"J is a modern, high-level, general-purpose, high-performance programming
language.
J is portable and runs on Windows, Unix, Mac, and PocketPC handhelds,
both as a GUI and in a console.
True 64-bit J systems are available for XP64 or Linux64, on AMD64 or Intel
EM64T platforms.
J systems can be installed and distributed for free."
NB. ===> free <===
http://jsoftware.com/platforms.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_E._Iverson
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_Award
Turing Award paper "Notation as a Tool of Thought":
http://awards.acm.org/images/awards/140/articles/9147499.pdf c. 51 pp.
http://awards.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=9147499&srt=year&year=1979&aw=140&ao=AMTURING
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