Pepe, I am not sure whether you have listened to the podcast, but Henry expressed great admiration for your ability to write tacit code. If you are interested, I would love to have you on as a guest, as your approach is one that has influenced a number of J programmers.
I actually was able to dig up the old j406 documentation through the wayback machine https://web.archive.org/web/20010127031200/http://www.jsoftware.com/dict/main.htm Cheers, bob > On Jul 25, 2021, at 18:48, Jose Mario Quintana > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Here they are... > > One can find an old Dictionary's relevant information at Martin's site: > F. Trains (gaertner.de) <http://juggle.gaertner.de/ref/dictionary/dictf.htm> > http://juggle.gaertner.de/ref/dictionary/dictf.htm > > I was never fully fluent because there were too many forms for me to > remember. However, the decision to remove most of them rendered the > programming of tacit conjunctions impossible. Remarkably, the programming > of tacit adverbs survived and it is, for the most part, complete. Years > later I realized that the last form in the list ( C0 A1 conj (x C0 y) A1 > ) would alone make the programming of tacit conjunctions also complete, for > the most part. Alas, all this is academic because it has been made > abundantly clear that none of those forms removed will ever come back to > the official language. > > I have that last form restored in my custom version of J not because is > necessary (my version treats verbs, and adverbs and conjunctions, as > genuine first-class citizens and reduces tacit conjunctional programming to > tacit dyadic verbal programming) but as a tribute to the foresight (fully > conscious or otherwise). > > On Sat, Jul 24, 2021 at 4:22 AM Hauke Rehr <[email protected]> wrote: > >> maybe Jose, author of the J Wicked Tacit Toolkit, >> wants to throw in his 2ยข? >> >> >> Am 24.07.21 um 09:29 schrieb 'robert therriault' via Programming: >>> I started programming in J just after ti was taken out, but I believe >> it allowed you to create trains in conjunctions the way that we currently >> do with verbs. In the interview Henry indicated that the processing was >> simplified when it was taken out and the language became easier to use for >> most. >>> >>> Cheers, bob >>> >>>> On Jul 24, 2021, at 00:11, Elijah Stone <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> there used to be a much richer of version of the language that was >> taken away 15 years ago. It was possible to do tacit programming with >> conjunctions >>>> >>>> I think I remember somebody else's mentioning that as well, at some >> point. How did that work? >>>> >>>> -E >>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >>> >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >>> >> >> -- >> ---------------------- >> mail written using NEO >> neo-layout.org >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> 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
