On Thu, 14 May 2009, gary ng wrote:
> On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 6:58 AM, Roger Hui <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > A more apt analogy is that in a sufficiently rich
> > programming language, programming is like writing
> > poetry, a point Arthur Whitney made in
> > http://mags.acm.org/queue/20090203/ (p.18)
> > and Ken Iverson had made to me in conversation.
> > In such a language there will be connections that
> > are surprising, but no less valid for that.
> >
> > true, though giving those poetries associated with bill lam's posts to a
> typical student went through a modern education system(in hong kong or
> china) is a bit challenging.
> When I was asking if it is a good practice, it is more from a software
> engineering perspective, the Python vs Perl thing.
>
> For that matter, I am glad I saw Ric's code as it taught me a number of
> things in J.
Everone has his own style of writing especially those great poets such
as Li Bai. In the case {.&> vs {."0 the former actually is more
visually pleasing because the characters blended together as a unit
smoothly. That said, students should use {."0 because teachers may
not be so talent.
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