thanks. i expected that to be the case (of course, there's the readability issue which is important to people who are scientists and engineers rather than coders - i often write nested anonymous (pure) function calls in WL myself and nobody can figure out what's going on except by seeing the result of applying it - i'm a MAJOR fan of 'write only' code although sometimes i can't even figure out what i've written without running the code).
i'll pass your results on to Jon and to stephen. btw - i hope nobody in the J programming group objects to these exchanges. i think that J and WL are the only languages worth anything (i abhor Do loops - i want to calculate what i want to calculate and not have to spend time getting a dumb computer to understand what it needs to do in terms it can understand - i had enough of that with teaching graduate students for 30 years) and there's a lot of commonality between the two except that J and APL and K and Q seem to be oriented primarily towards very fast financial analysis while WL is the language for computing in science in general). i love them both and am definitely not trying to pit one against the other. On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 1:14 PM, bob therriault <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi Richard, > > When I read through the background of the link, I found that a comparison > with J was done and the programmer, Jon McLoone, posted the results as a > response to a comment: > > " I quickly ran the code on J and got ratios of lines:0.5, characters: > 0.74, tokens:0.5, over 432 comparisons i.e. J is about half the length of > Mathematica code." > > Posted by Jon McLoone November 14, 2012 at 3:04 pm > http://blog.wolfram.com/2012/11/14/code-length-measured-in-14-languages/ > > Cheers, bob > > On 2013-09-13, at 10:55 AM, Richard Gaylord wrote: > > > btw - i'm glad we're doing this since Wolfram people did a comparision of > > program conciseness in various languages but left out J and APL for some > > reason. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > -- *"Those who would sacrifice freedom for security deserve neither." - Benjamin Franklin* *"I think that the very notion that equations are a good approach to describing the natural world is a little bizarre." - Stephen Wolfram* ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
