Henry - I intend to link it into the beginner resources once I've settled on how it should look.
Alex - I left out monadic ^ for lack of a good word. I'm not sure that "Exp(x)" or "exponentiation" is worth the clutter. On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 6:44 PM, Alex Giannakopoulos <[email protected] > wrote: > Just a teeny thing, but if you are going to have both the monadic and the > dyadic definitions for ^. then shouldn't you have the same for ^ ? > Less confusion that way, plus a better insight into the way J uses dyads. > > > On 2 September 2014 22:14, Henry Rich <[email protected]> wrote: > > > What I meant was, arrange so Getting Started and NuVoc point to your > > page. Beginners should be able to make their way to one of those pages. > > > > Henry Rich > > > > > > On 9/2/2014 4:47 PM, Henry Rich wrote: > > > >> Please link NuVoc, and Getting Started, to this. > >> > >> Henry Rich > >> > >> On 9/2/2014 12:36 PM, Skip Cave wrote: > >> > >>> Devon, nice job of putting together a reduced set of primitives for rhe > >>> beginner. The only issue I see is the name. As a beginner, I would > never > >>> think to find a set of most-commonly-used primitives under the name "J > >>> Kernel" That actually sounds like a discussion of the internals of J, > >>> which > >>> is what I thought when I read the subject of your email. I doubt that a > >>> beginner would check out a page with that label. A title like "J's > Basic > >>> Commands for Beginners" or equivalent, would be more likely to attract > >>> the > >>> intended audience. > >>> > >>> Skp > >>> > >>> Skip Cave > >>> Cave Consulting LLC > >>> > >>> > >>> On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 9:54 AM, Devon McCormick <[email protected]> > >>> wrote: > >>> > >>> Based on some feedback from Greg Borota last year on his experiences > >>>> learning J, I've put together a page on the J Wiki - > >>>> http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/DevonMcCormick/JKernel - that has a > few > >>>> selected things from J on which a beginner can concentrate to avoid > >>>> being > >>>> overwhelmed by the language in full. > >>>> > >>>> It's a pretty bare minimum and I couldn't find a good link that > explains > >>>> J's use of single quote for quoted strings but everyone should feel > >>>> free to > >>>> add to it - sparingly, as it's supposed to be a reduced set of the > >>>> language. > >>>> > >>>> It might make sense to leave the existing page much as it is and to > >>>> think > >>>> about a 2nd tier of slightly more advanced verbs and such. There > >>>> were good > >>>> suggestions in the original discussion - > >>>> > >>>> http://jsoftware.2058.n7.nabble.com/Learning-J- > >>>> language-initial-thoughts-td52786.html#a52793 > >>>> > >>>> - that I elided as I consider them more than the bare minimum (things > >>>> like > >>>> rank modifiers and logic verbs). > >>>> > >>>> -- > >>>> Devon McCormick, CFA > >>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>>> For information about J forums see > http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > >>>> > >>>> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > >>> > >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > >> > >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > -- Devon McCormick, CFA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
