Hi everyone, The 2D view of the language was something that I played around with a few years ago. Here is a blog post that includes a screencast attempting to explain the '~" adverb that also incorporated that view. The visual representation is predominant in the second half of the video.
Think of it as a beginning and not an end, I am almost embarrassed by how it looks now and I may pick it up again and see if I can come up with something a little more effective. Hope this helps. http://bobtherriault.wordpress.com/2010/11/17/those-tricky-adverbs/ Cheers, bob On 2013-04-10, at 4:15 PM, greg heil wrote: > Skip > >> This is what your line becomes after being filtered by an ascii editor (my >> main editor): > > ×÷=%_$~<>??¦??????¤«»¡¿ > > in the email source everything was binary (binHex`d) encoded. > >> If such is required for intelligent communication of J i personally do not >> want to take that step. > >> At this point in the language J`s evolution i would like to see it >> solidified ... in as many platforms as possible. That requires stability not >> fragmentation in the base graphical structure. > >> i _would_ however like to see innovation _inspired_ by J. That _could_ be >> the design of a language which does take advantage of modern possibilities. > >> Coming to mind is a 1.5 (like TeX) or 2D language (not successfully built >> yet). J has some interesting constructs in its syntax. Those might see a >> true flowering into a higher graphical level. > > Higher dimensionality would make it very easy to consider more than > two input streams. What are those possibilities, and how can they be > generated syntactically? > >> i would hope that this concentration of energy we have here can be really >> used for the next language (L?) > > greg > ~krsnadas.org > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
