1+
I thought HR was so opposed to re-introducing them,
they’d stay buried in J5’s (?) tomb.
Personally, I’d have liked to try and learn them,
but only taken baby steps because of their abandonment.
Now I’m eager to learn tacit thinking beyond what had
been kept alive.
I agree not everyone needs to explore them but personally,
I felt that very need yet also wanted to get the benefits
of the latest J available.
Thanks for bringing them back.
This makes the language Rich (yes, exactly) and usually
that’s a good thing in itself no matter how much of it
gets used regularly¹. There are and will always be
different styles, tastes, and sometimes there are revivals
of parts of a language, on the thesaurus or grammar level,
both in natural and artificial languages.
Sure the language shouldn’t get bloated without good reason.²
But amoung the main differences between the Iversonian languages
and most of the others (most notably the C syntax family) is
tacit programming. Few programmers learn it at all.
If J was a mainstream language with hundreds of thousands of
people using it for decades, and still hardly anyone of them
could make good sense or good use of that part of the language,
I’d agree it didn’t need to stay.
Once tacit programming is more common knowledge, I guess there
will be way more people who at least don’t have trouble
understanding those re-introduced trains. Time will tell.
¹ I prefer perl’s TIMTOWTDI over python’s unique obvious way
² much more of a problem with application programs, though
PS: I ain’t a nostalgic oldtimer :-)
Am 27.09.21 um 02:09 schrieb ethiejiesa via Programming:
Henry Rich <henryhr...@gmail.com> wrote:
And because they're cool.
So much yes! Extremely pumped about this!
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