With all due respect, and genuine appreciation for your fine work on the "J Reference Card"...
IIRC, wasn't the IBM/360 "Green Card" *SIX* pages long? So, why such an arbitrary limit for such a rich, and relatively under-documented language as "J"? After all, new audiences for J (and uninitiated illiterates like me) need all the documentary help and more-thoroughly-notated examples we can get -- if J is meant to be more than an esoteric notation! *Robert Knight* * * *(-o-)* * * On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 3:10 PM, Henry Rich <[email protected]> wrote: > The multicolor page is the only version that we plan to produce. Since > the card can't possibly say everything, I am OK with its being incomplete. > Your point about mentioning all primitives is reasonable. I wouldn't want > to go to more than 2 pages though. > > I did the content and layout, and Ric did the formatting. Since the page > is on the Wiki, anyone with access to the formatting tool Ric used is > welcome to add to it. If monad /. were to be mentioned, it would be the > last line under Partitions, and would be > > +--+---+---+--+ > </. i. 2 3 MinorDiagonals |,0|1 3|2 4|,5| > +--+---+---+--+ > > Henry Rich > > > On 6/7/2013 1:25 PM, R.E. Boss wrote: > >> Well, it's impressive what (and how) you got on those two pages. >> Perhaps it's worthwhile to extend http://www.jsoftware.com/** >> jwiki/Books#J_Reference_Card<http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Books#J_Reference_Card>with >> the J primitives missing. >> In the German translation, which covers 3 pages, it is mentioned, under >> diagonal. >> >> >> R.E. Boss >> >> >> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- >>> Van: >>> programming-bounces@forums.**jsoftware.com<[email protected]>[mailto: >>> programming-bounces@**forums.jsoftware.com<[email protected]>] >>> Namens Henry Rich >>> Verzonden: vrijdag 7 juni 2013 16:29 >>> Aan: [email protected] >>> Onderwerp: Re: [Jprogramming] J reference card >>> >>> Yes. So are m~ .. .: dyad ;: ?. and maybe others >>> >>> Ric & I just ran out of space on the page. >>> >>> Henry Rich >>> >>> On 6/7/2013 10:13 AM, R.E. Boss wrote: >>> >>>> Is oblique (/.) missing in the J-reference card? >>>> >>>> >>>> R.E. Boss >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> ------------------------------**------------------------------** >>>> ---------- >>>> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/** >>>> forums.htm <http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm> >>>> >>>> ------------------------------**------------------------------** >>> ---------- >>> For information about J forums see >>> http://www.jsoftware.com/**forums.htm<http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm> >>> >> >> ------------------------------**------------------------------** >> ---------- >> For information about J forums see >> http://www.jsoftware.com/**forums.htm<http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm> >> >> ------------------------------**------------------------------** > ---------- > For information about J forums see > http://www.jsoftware.com/**forums.htm<http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
