Thanks to Oleg. Next time I will get off my fat ass and check my bookshelf first!
On Feb 1, 2010, at 9:18 PM, Ian Clark <earthspo...@googlemail.com> wrote: > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
