There's something to be said for solving investing one's efforts in the problems which are easy to solve.
-- Raul On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 1:50 PM, Devon McCormick <[email protected]> wrote: > This is nice but avoids the hard parts of the problem. > > It's easy to say that "i." is "iota", but where does "i:" fit in? In J, > the "dot" and "colon" versions of a verb often have a a fitting relation, > e.g. "+" is addition, "+." is logical "or", and (monadic) "+:" is > "double"; analogously, "*" is times, "*." is logical "and", and (monadic) > "*:" is "square". Or, how about (^ ^. ^:) as "power", "log" and "power > conjunction"? The APL characters, as pretty as they are, lose these > relations between concepts > > > On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 12:52 PM, William Tanksley, Jr <[email protected] >> wrote: > >> That really is magnificent -- and I speak as someone who stopped trying to >> learn APL (before J was easily available) because I found the character set >> unapproachable. I could easily see myself switching to that overlay for >> normal coding and reading. >> >> I'd like to see this developed into a coherent standard with concern for >> the capabilities of different editors (I use vim and Android). >> >> Marc Simpson <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > Personally, I think this is a neat idea and one worth pursuing. I tried >> > something similar in Emacs using overlays a while back (Don might recall >> > this). Examples from that experiment: >> > http://0branch.com/snippets/j-symbols3.png >> > http://0branch.com/snippets/j-symbols4.png >> > >> >> -Wm >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >> > > > > -- > Devon McCormick, CFA > ^me^ at acm. > org is my > preferred e-mail > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
