But where is the substance, in the underlying J mechanisms or the underlying C interpreter mechanisms or in the chip and other hardware mechanisms or in the underlying physical electromagnetic phenomena or in … ?
________________________________ From: Raul Miller <[email protected]> To: Programming forum <[email protected]> Sent: Mon, December 21, 2009 4:29:07 PM Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] Tacit exercise On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Dan Bron <[email protected]> wrote: > Raul wrote: >> 13 : '%: +/ *: y' 3 4 > > I replied: >> I differ; the above is not tacit programming. True, the verb which is >> eventually >> applied to 3 4 is tacit, but that tacit verb is nowhere evident in the line >> above >> (and so cannot be blamed for any "ugliness"). > > Raul responded: >> Style over substance? > > What? Your statement "the above is not tacit programming", with its following sentence, seems to indicate you are more concerned with the style (the way things appear) than with the substance (the mechanisms used) of such expressions? -- Raul -- Raul ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
