On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 4:47 AM, Steven Taylor<[email protected]> wrote: > I had to share this. Using J I was recently able to solve an n-dimensional > mapping problem using a J array with a shape vector. The solution needed 4 > operations. Moving this back to the C / C# world the other developer > couldn't see that it was a complete solution. Instead he is now busy > recreating this in an inefficient tree, or as I suggested, if it must be > this way, go ahead and use a hash map.
If someone I was working on was doing something like this, I would ask him what problem he was trying to solve. > "This isn't the way you do it in .net", he said. "You need references and > pointers", he continued. In his own words he wanted to go for a "zero > intelligence solution"... but it seems to me more like, "zero intelligence > but how can I use all the fancy new toys to make it more complex". Oh, and > substitute "more complex" with "more maintainable" to > be politically correct. And, here, it sounds like he is trying to solve a documentation problem. And, making up nonsense requirements. -- Raul ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
