I tried this in J7 and got
*:3 4 5
9 16 25
2010/11/14 Marshall Lochbaum <[email protected]>
> You also have listed
> *:3 4 5
> 9 16 15
>
> instead of
> 9 16 25
> .
> That wouldn't really help your case that J is consistent...
>
> Marshall
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bo Jacoby
> Sent: Sunday, November 14, 2010 2:49 AM
> To: Programming forum
> Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] Presenting J at the "Language Slapdown" this
> week
>
> Hi Devon
>
> That is a very nice presentation!
>
> Minor details:
>
> You provide 3 lines of the vocabulary of J on page 2. Why not tell that the
> COMPLETE vocabulary is only 41 lines? To me the short language definition
> is
> an important quality of J.
>
> It is also very nice that J is accessible without charge.
>
> You do write the word "compact", but not HOW compact. (192 KB). The
> compactness contributes to reliability.
>
> Elementary examples makes the audience feel comfortable:
> 3+3
> 6
> 3*3
> 9
> 3-3
> 0
> 3%3
> 1
> 3^3
> 27
> 27^%3
> 3
>
> The advanced stuff is impressiv but not comprehensible to non-J'ers.
>
> I miss a negative sign "_" in the Newton iteration "close to zero
> difference" e_16.
>
> Good luck!
>
> Bo
>
>
> --- Den søn 14/11/10 skrev Devon McCormick <[email protected]>:
>
> > Fra: Devon McCormick <[email protected]>
> > Emne: [Jprogramming] Presenting J at the "Language Slapdown" this week
> > Til: "J-programming forum" <[email protected]>
> > Dato: søndag 14. november 2010 07.29
> > Hi All -
> >
> > I've put up a PDF -
> > http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/DevonMcCormick/LanguageSlapdown
> > - of what I'm
> > going to present at the Language Slapdown (
> > http://www.meetup.com/Language-Slapdown/)
> > on Wednesday. Please feel free to
> > take a look and comment. Thanks to everyone in NYCJUG who gave me
> > help with this.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Devon
> >
> > --
> > Devon McCormick, CFA
> > ^me^ at acm.
> > org is my
> > preferred e-mail
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