Affirming Greg, "I believe this wikipedia quote conveys a somewhat distorted and untrue idea"
While it's true that I use matrix divide far more often than "twice and only because domino is a glorious symbol", recently I've been parsing some web sites. At first I tried to implement in python a finite state machine based on the python html parser to extract information I needed. Next I tried a j implementation involving heavy use of cut based on member of interval, variants of (<;.1~ '<tr'&E.@:tolower) PAGE_DATA I quickly discovered that looking at the data in parallel as j aligns common elements easily for display made the html source readily comprehensible leading to less programmer time and solutions robust against flawed web pages. > From: Greg Borota <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] Learning J language - initial thoughts > Message-ID: > <CADpZFrydhjk-_aJ8=cMXNJXiThdJFGPa7DJhRYz_TztP > [email protected]> > All the the great feedback helps define better what I, and I think > many who > have come in touch with J, were looking for: the general-purpose core > of > the language. That is a quite vaguely defined concept, many do > understand it intuitively though. > J is "a general purpose programming language" http://www.jsoftware > .com/help/primer/why_j.htm > > I believe this wikipedia quote conveys a somewhat destorted and untrue > idea > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J_(programming_language): "J is a very > terse > array programming language, and is most suited to mathematical and > statistical programming, especially when performing operations on > matrices." There are things that could be done to correct that wrong > perception. This general-purpose "core" might be one of them. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
