People see truth in humor. And people use humor to crush their competition.
> Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2009 09:46:29 +0000 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] Stacked Bar Chart > > It is actually more just funny comment. > > From the same page > > "APL (family) > In J one can see the same sort of point-free code in a function > designed to compute the average of a list (array) of numbers: > avg=: +/ % # > # counts the number of items in the array. +/ sums the items of the > array. % divides the sum by the number of items" > > You might also call it argument-free or something like that. > Without arguments? > Silent? > > I like referring to it as pointless - and I take it more in a positive > way as funny - I like tacit even if I am not very good at it. > > > 2009/11/7 James Foit <[email protected]>: > > > > I was googling 'tacit programming', found this: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacit_programming > > And noticed near the top of the page this line: > > "Outside of the APL and J communities, tacit programming is referred to as > > point-free style[1], or more pithily as pointless programming." > > > > Someone with a wiki account may want to remove the final clause. Innuendo > > like that can destroy all that u guys work for. > > > >> Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2009 11:08:57 +0800 > >> From: [email protected] > >> To: [email protected] > >> Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] Stacked Bar Chart > >> > >> On Fri, 06 Nov 2009, Thomas Costigliola wrote: > >> > The given plot was produced with R; it has an incredibly flexible > >> > plotting package. > >> > >> Not exactly an answer. There are plot packages (eg. goffice) for gtk+ > >> (untested). > >> > >> -- > >> regards, > >> ==================================================== > >> GPG key 1024D/4434BAB3 2008-08-24 > >> gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 4434BAB3 > >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > > > > > -- > Björn Helgason, Verkfræðingur > Fugl&Fiskur ehf, > Þerneyjarsundi 23, Hraunborgum > Po Box 127,801 Selfoss , > t-póst: [email protected] > gsm: +3546985532 > Landslags og skrúðgarðagerð, gröfuþjónusta > http://groups.google.com/group/J-Programming > > > Tæknikunnátta höndlar hið flókna, sköpunargáfa er meistari einfaldleikans > > góður kennari getur stigið á tær án þess að glansinn fari af skónum > /|_ .-----------------------------------. > ,' .\ / | Með léttri lund verður | > ,--' _,' | Dagurinn í dag | > / / | Enn betri en gærdagurinn | > ( -. | `-----------------------------------' > | ) | (\_ _/) > (`-. '--.) (='.'=) ♖♘♗♕♔♙ > `. )----' (")_(") ☃☠ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
