Thank you. Now I'm in search of the very rare book.
2007/2/19, Roger Hui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Programming style is a complex topic. I can not
do it justice in an e-mail.
There is no "Programming Style in J" paper that I
know of. There is Ken Iverson's "Programming
Style in APL" from the 1978 APL User's Meeting,
cited in the Berry & Pesch paper. (Ken's paper is
Reprinted in "A Source Book in APL".) Many of the
points there are applicable to J or are done better
in J. The paper begins thus:
When all the techniques of program management and
programming practice have been applied, there
remain vast differences in quality of code produced
by different programmers. These differences turn
not so much upon the use of specific tricks or
techniques as upon a general manner of expression,
which, by analogy with native language, we will
refer to as _style_. This paper addresses the
question of developing good programming style in APL.
Because it does not rest upon specific techniques,
good style cannot be taught in a direct manner,
but it can be fostered by the acquisition of certain
habits of thought. The following sections should
therefore be read more as examples of general
habits to be identified and fostered, than as
specific prescriptions of good technique.
...
1. Assimilation of Primitives and Phrases
2. Function Definition
3. Generality
4. Identities
5. Proofs
6. Recursive Definition
7. Properties of Defined Functions
8. Efficiency
9. Reading
10. Conclusions
Appendix A. Translation from Direct to Del Form
References
----- Original Message -----
From: June Kim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sunday, February 18, 2007 3:30 pm
Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] Style and Literacy in APL
> ...
> What do you think about the main theme of the paper? What style of J
> code is more readable to you? Is there any "Style and Literacy" like
> paper for J?
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