That name might be less controversial if it were changed to "Simplistic J".
That said, personally I find this definition too ambiguous to reason
about. Reading a file, for example, requires the use of a conjunction
that you have disallowed. But it looks to me like you have allowed
conjunctions that you have disallowed. So this implies, to me, that
your concept of "use" and mine are different.
Then again, you have said that you "often" write in this style, so
maybe I should view this not as a constraint on code but something
closer to a statistical observation. Personally, I often use nouns
and verbs (for example), and I do indeed write sentences that do not
contain anything other than nouns and verbs.
It might be worth building a "cost scheme" for evaluating the
complexity of a J sentence.
For example:
sentenceCost=:verb define
+/1 0 1 8 16 2{~2+nc;:y
)
sentenceCost '+/1 0 1 8 16 2{~2+nc;:y'
11
A more elaborate version might enumerate individual dictionary tokens
instead of using 1 for all of them. Another variation might require
test data and explore properties of the resulting evaluation (for
example: is the result a noun, if so what rank is it?)
--
Raul
On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 9:49 PM, km <[email protected]> wrote:
> I often write in Simple J, defined to be J with no conjunction other than "
> Rank. Adverbs, including &.> &> @[ and @] , are permitted. When I
> need conjunctions : @. ^: . ;. I leave Simple J.
>
> Simple J rules out modifier chains with their left-to-right association,
> "long left reach" and "short right reach", and relies on forks and hooks plus
> " Rank for composition. I like to have rank for composition out in the
> open when it is not infinite.
>
> Simple J including its name is controversial!
>
> Kip Murray
>
> Sent from my iPad
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