Many years ago I got my hands on a mousemat from Jsoftware with the dictionary. It has served me well, although it no longer is an accurate description of current J. What you are doing seems like an excellent replacement. I look forward to making myself a new personal mousemat with your reference card on it (if you give me permission to do so). On the other hand, if Jsoftware were to make it, I would buy it from them.
Regards, Pablo Landherr On 3/28/06, Henry Rich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am working on a one-sheet reference card for J. It looks like it will > fit > on front & back of an 8.5x11 sheet if I use an 8-point font. I have a > first > pass at what I want to include, attached to this email as a text file. I > would like comments from interested users before I go through the pain of > cramming it onto a page. > > The intended user has a reading knowledge of J but may need some reminding > about what the primitives do. My goal is to include one example of all > the > important idioms of J so that the interested user can look it up in more > detail > if he finds it promising. The advanced reader who is trying to become > expert in > J should feel that he has been exposed to most of the language once he has > finished > reading the reference card. Coders trying to remember a form should find > enough to > jog their memory. > > I am going to group the J facilities by function: partitions, math, > selection, etc. > > For each form, I have an example, my mnemonic, and a result. If the > result > is an array it's not shown in the text file. The operands A and B are > a character array and a complex boxed structure which will be shown in the > legend. > > I don't really expect anyone to review the attached notes in detail, but > if y'all would think a minute about what features you have found yourself > forgetting, or some feature you didn't find out about for years but now > love, > let me know if you don't find it listed. I say nothing about useful verbs > from the J scripts and I welcome suggestions about what to mention. > > Henry Rich > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
