I think it is rather the opposite that most objections to J has been from people who do not understand tacit. The explicit definitions are not at all ugly either. I think it is more a matter of taste and understanding.
The explcit definitions and comments are often much better and especially for beginners. Tacit programming can be very nice and it can also be horribly complex and scary looking. 2009/12/20 Andrew Nikitin <[email protected]>: > > I think the reason that so many people dislike explicit definitions is > because they are syntactically ugly. Multiline is only mildly ugly, but > single line is a freak. Come on, > > length=:3 : '%: +/ *: y' ? > > Bleah. Clean, easy to read and still bleah. > > This and only this fuels myth of alleged superiority of purely tacit > expressions. > Because ugly cannot be good. > > _________________________________________________________________ > Your E-mail and More On-the-Go. Get Windows Live Hotmail Free. > http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/171222985/direct/01/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > -- Björn Helgason, Verkfræðingur Fornustekkum II 781 Hornafirði Po Box 127,801 Selfoss , t-póst: [email protected] gsm: +3546985532 sími: +3544781286 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
