Hello R.E.Boss I Do not have any post-secondary education, and am solely programming just out of recreation is the best way i can put it. Ive only dabbled in other programming languages and didn't find them interesting. I actually Found J after having issues getting Dyalog APL running on my 64-bit ARM computer, and J worked perfectly. I also appreciate the fact it uses ASCII characters and not a special character set. I am an italian-canadian, and only know the language from being raised around it, so its what i know other than english, that's not saying i hate it. I actually dumped the arithmetic book as it doesn't make much sense of explaining things (the book says all you need to know is how to count) and its missing things that are referred in some sections. Im giving the J Primer a crack too see if helps me.
regards, Joseph Turco On Sun, Sep 5, 2021 at 11:51 AM R.E. Boss <r.e.b...@outlook.com> wrote: > Can you tell us a bit about your background? Did you program before? Which > languages? Why was Italian not a language to learn for fun? > > Welcome anyhow! > One can have worse reasons to learn a language. > > > R. E. Boss > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Programming <programming-boun...@forums.jsoftware.com> On Behalf Of > joseph turco > Sent: zaterdag 4 september 2021 17:01 > To: programm...@jsoftware.com > Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] Hello, new programmer here! > > Thanks Bo, > > I am actually following the 'Learning J' book that is on the J website. > its been good so far, but i've been getting a bit confused with the '&' > verb and '@:' verb and what makes them different (they are verbs right?). > Its funny because i was bored of math class in high school and was one of > those kids who "skipped" a lot, but using a language like J has made me > fascinated with what is possible. > > regards, > > Joseph Turco > > On Sat, Sep 4, 2021 at 7:06 AM 'Bo Jacoby' via Programming < > programm...@jsoftware.com> wrote: > > > Welcome Joseph! > > Being an old programmer I became fascinated by J. > > There is a lot to learn, but some of it is unnecessary to the beginner. > > The 3 operations, addition (+), multiplication (*), and exponentiation > > (^), are sufficient for many computations. Having sign change (-) you > > do not need subtraction (b-a)=(b+-a), and division > > (b%a)=(*/(b,a)^1,-1), nor (%a)=(a^-1), (%:a)=(a^2^-1), (+:a)=(a*2), > > (-:a)=(a*2^-1), (-.a)=(1+-a), (>:a)=(1+a), (*:a)=(a^2). > > Note that expressions are evaluated from right to left: > > (a^b^c)=(a^(b^c)) Have fun! > > Bo. > > Den fredag den 3. september 2021 20.24.11 CEST skrev joseph turco > > < > > italian.pepe...@gmail.com>: > > > > Hello all, > > > > I am a novice programmer and was looking for a language to learn for > > fun. I tried APL but I couldn't get the keybindings to work on my > > computer. I then found J from reddit and some google fu. It looks like > > an awesome language, and i can't wait to learn more and make some fun > > programs. I'd thought i'd pop in and say hello, so hi! > > > > regards, > > > > Joseph TUrco > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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
