Yes I tended to write from scratch as well from the beginning, but I gradually realized that in many cases the verbs have already been written by more experienced J users. At the very least, I can read their code and learn from it.
And that is just the standard library, there is also the '~addons/types/datetime/datetime.ijs' script that Ric Sherlock wrote in 2009 (you will have needed to download it through the Package Manager first, if you have not already with a full install). Cheers and good luck with the work, bob > On Mar 31, 2021, at 21:19, Thomas Bulka <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Bob, > > thank you very much, that helps indeed. It seems, I have had a too > minimal approach towards J. I worked through a lot of material like, > e.g., Roger Stokes excellent book on learning J. But this material > mostly focusses on the J primitives. > > Probably that left me with the impression, that you have to build > everything yourself and so I built a lot of stuff for myself which might > already be part of the standard library. I will have to give a closer > look, I think... > > Regards, > > Thomas > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
