> Roger wrote: > > When Ken was designing APL (J), I don't think he > > thought in terms of "information density is good". > > Would you agree if I used the more a more description, such as > "concision","brevity", or "succinctness is power"?
Expressiveness, suggestivity, subordination of detail, economy, amenability to formal proofs. http://www.jsoftware.com/papers/tot.htm ----- Original Message ----- From: Dan Bron <[email protected]> Date: Tuesday, February 2, 2010 16:20 Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] remove hooks or add h. ? To: 'Programming forum' <[email protected]> > Roger wrote: > > When Ken was designing APL (J), I don't think he > > thought in terms of "information density is good". > > Would you agree if I used the more a more description, such as > "concision","brevity", or "succinctness is power"? > > > The choice was + (or "plus") vs. > > plus plusvector plusmatrix plusrank3 > > > APL and J opt for the one symbol. > > Yes, this is what I meant, but you expressed it better. > > -Dan ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
