Leo Brodie. Brilliant! Thanks Oleg, you've given me a piece of my mind back.
I'd forgotten Slash the samurai. And yes -- it's SWAP not SWOP. Not sure my contact could do animations. But they'd add something, if only here and there. Since thanks to YouTube the only sensible vehicle for a presentation is a movie (forget Powerpoint) then it's a sin not to animate. Wasn't it APL 2003 in San Diego where they staged a mop-drill to illustrate Backslash? Anyone know a good bunch of cheerleaders we could shoot with a home movie camera? Ian On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 8:50 PM, Oleg Kobchenko <oleg...@yahoo.com> wrote: >> From: Ian Clark <earthspo...@googlemail.com> > >> >> > One winning instructional strategy, including Gilman and Rose, >> > is telling a story for each piece of material. Such stories, >> > among other things, may revolve around exo-paradigms. >> >> When I used to program in FORTH (sign of a mis-spent youth) one >> well-beloved primer in the FORTH community was illustrated with >> engaging but instructive cartoons. Thus the standard word SWOP was a >> little two-headed dragon that did what you'd guess with objects on the >> stack. Can anyone remember the book and remind me of its title? > > Starting FORTH, by Leo Brodie > > http://www.forth.com/starting-forth/sf2/sf2.html > > > This is fun stuff all right. And a good read for a vacation. > > > What I was thinking for APL/J for a long time was > an interactive or animated illustrator of the operations, > especially those that manipulate multidimensional and > nested structures. > > >> I know someone (http://www.leelamaria.com/) who could do us a wodge of >> cartoons like that. Shall I try to get them interested? > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
