good one.
On 11/26/07, Randy MacDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I prefer Roger's no comment.
>
> Roy A. Crabtree wrote:
> > no comment.
> >
> > On Nov 26, 2007 4:52 PM, R.E. Boss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >
> >> Just like you spend your time commenting on people dreaming up one
> liners,
> >> there are others who spend their time dreaming up one liners.
> >>
> >> And I (sometimes) spend my time commenting on someone who spend his
> time
> >> commenting on people dreaming up one liners.
> >>
> >>
> >> R.E. Boss
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> >>> Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:programming-
> >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Namens Lynn & Bob Graf
> >>> Verzonden: maandag 26 november 2007 17:31
> >>> Aan: [email protected]
> >>> Onderwerp: [Jprogramming] Re: Oblique Function
> >>>
> >>> Rather than racking your brains to do it in an unbelievably complex
> one
> >>> liner, why not just use three sentences?:
> >>> 1. Extract the data you need with {
> >>> 2 Perform your verb
> >>> 3. Re-insert it with }
> >>>
> >>> Then after you've tested it out, if you really must, you may be able
> to
> >>> convert it into a one-liner using ]
> >>>
> >>> Finally, you can try and convert that into a tacit function. But
> unless
> >>> all this added effort results in a noticeable speed up, why bother,
> >>>
> >> unless
> >>
> >>> it's some macho thing?!? One of the main raisons d'être of J is that
> it
> >>> permits far faster program development - perhaps 10 times faster than
> >>> traditional programming languages. If you're going to spend time
> >>>
> >> dreaming
> >>
> >>> up such one liners, what's happened to that time advantage. Is that
> an
> >>> integral part of APL and J ?!?
> >>>
> >>> In an earlier world APL, such dense, difficult-to-understand one
> liners,
> >>> had a name, which I can't even use today because of more recent
> >>> connotations is has.
> >>>
> >>> Bob in Boynton Beach, FL
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
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> >
> >
> >
> >
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