I think he means that many of the benchmark programs that J performs
poorly on turn out not to be practical problems, and that J does quite
well on the problems that people actually need solutions for. This has
been my experience too.
Henry Rich
On 9/12/2013 4:53 PM, Philip Hunt (USA) wrote:
Richard he's joking -
He simply means if its not a problem J can't help you solve it :-)
and if its not a problem you are not trying to solve it!
Phil
On 9/12/2013 4:38 PM, Richard Gaylord wrote:
what does "bad at solving non-problems" mean?
On Thursday, September 12, 2013, Raul Miller wrote:
On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 3:01 PM, Richard Gaylord
<[email protected]<javascript:;>>
wrote:
what are the pattern matching capabilities of J?
This is an open ended question, with a potential infinity of answers
and non-answers.
What problem are you trying to solve? (Or, put differently: are you
trying to solve a problem? J is notoriously bad at solving
non-problems.)
--
Raul
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