People often accused Ken of including primitives in the language designed specifically to solve this or that problem. Over time, as the accusation occurs for problem after problem, he learned to take the accusation as a compliment.
----- Original Message ----- From: Dan Bron <[email protected]> Date: Sunday, September 19, 2010 17:02 Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] subsequent draws from arrays To: 'Programming forum' <[email protected]> > Alexander Mikhailov wrote: > > Great the solution is already > > built in the language. > > On several occasions, Jers have been accused of "cheating" in > programmingcontests, because of the great number of useful > primitives built in (so some > traditional programming "puzzles" are reduced to triviality in J). > > -Dan ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
