On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 10:59 PM, bill lam <[email protected]> wrote: > I would say 'J is not a language for serious functional programming' > since J lacks all features that present in modern fp such as lazy > evaluation, infinite list, abstract type, functional compositions > other than adverb/conjunction and fork/hook.
And I suppose I would say that "serious functional programming" seems to have been rooted in misunderstanding. See notes relating to Backus at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Function-level_programming But even from this point of view, I do not think "functional compositions other than adverb/conjunction and fork/hook" counts as a feature. -- Raul ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
