Me? I suppose I have my personal tastes. And, I've my background (I've been programming for some time now, I think I wrote my first line of code in 1974, and I've about a decade of experience debugging race conditions in other people's APL (and writing APL to deal with textual issues) and various other random bits of things that might be related (various bits of college, for example).
Also, I'm not afraid of making mistakes though I am often embarrassed by them. Anyways, it's often fun to take someone else's code and study it and examples to see how it works. -- Raul On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 5:50 PM, km <[email protected]> wrote: > Still, what do you have in your personal book for writing J? Kip > > Sent from my iPad > > > On Feb 3, 2013, at 4:46 PM, km <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Oops, what Raul said was >> >> Also, the important qualities are 1) reversibility and 2) compressibility. >> >> Kip >> >> Sent from my iPad >> >> >> On Feb 3, 2013, at 4:42 PM, km <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Strunk and White begin "The Elements of Style" with "Elementary Rules of >>> Usage", for example using >>> >>> It's a wise dog that scratches its own fleas >>> >>> to illustrate the difference between it's and its. >>> >>> >>> In J we could use >>> >>> +: - -: 12 >>> _12 >>> (+: - -:) 12 >>> 18 >>> >>> to illustrate the difference between f g h y and (f g h) y . >>> >>> >>> Strunk and White next take up "Principles of Composition", one of which is >>> "Omit needless words." >>> >>> Raul recently mentioned simplicity and reversibility. What do you have in >>> your personal book for writing J? >>> >>> Kip Murray >>> >>> Sent from my iPad >>> >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
