The LEO editor might be a good fit.
And yes, it’s really freaking (cool).
A script could generate the actual .ijs from snippets that are well
documented and those snippets may well be single J tokens.
Am 28.04.22 um 08:10 schrieb Ed Gottsman:
LOL. Fair question. Here’s another: if J adopted a style standard around
ideograms (which are rendered vertically by default) for comments, would that
on the one hand slightly increase (as a percentage) its reputation for
obscurity among Western programmers but on the other dramatically increase its
penetration in China (an enormous market)?
Seriously: I’m an amateur and maybe this goes away with expert status, but my
own J is no longer readable-at-a-glance after a day or two. I’ve often
wondered whether a J-friendly editor could act as a crutch* in that regard.
Most programming languages are line-oriented in the sense that one comment per
line is adequate. J is token-oriented in that each character speaks volumes
and may deserve its own annotation. Typical (line-oriented) editors aren’t set
up to support that gracefully. (I’m not telling you anything you don’t know; I
imagine this discussion has come up before.)
And, no, I don’t know what such an editor would look like beyond saying that it
would be really freaking cool. As Wally once told the Pointy-Haired Boss,
“It’s my job angrily to point out problems!” (Though to be clear, I’m actually
perfectly happy. If I really can’t understand what I wrote, I just rewrite it
from scratch. :-) )
Ed
*Crutch n. A thing used for support or reassurance. May hold you back in the
long term.
Ed
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On Apr 27, 2022, at 7:01 PM, Hauke Rehr <hauke.r...@uni-jena.de> wrote:
What keeps you from writing your comments vertically‽
Am 27.04.22 um 14:50 schrieb Ed Gottsman:
If J were written vertically, it might be easier to comment.
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