On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 11:34 PM, Ian Clark <[email protected]> wrote: > Action people tend to develop problem domains with a rich variety of > actions and very few things, usually of a generic nature. Think of J, > with over 100 primitives, mostly verbs, and basically just one sort of > "thing", called an array. And in tacit programming, things (=nouns) > disappear altogether from the problem representation.
Alternatively, we have a profusion of different arrays... And, for that matter, we have things which are neither verbs nor nouns. Still, I also think it's fruitful to spend some time in communities that have not adopted this particular language. (And, we have work we need to do, here, also.) Going to the practical side of things, a big issue with visual presentation of data was illustrated by Henry's recent project, where the treatment of large things in a grid seemed to be something of an obstacle. -- Raul ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
