Yes--of course. I assume this is a copy-and-paste problem instead of a J problem.
Marshall -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Björn Helgason Sent: Sunday, November 14, 2010 9:28 AM To: Programming forum Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] Presenting J at the "Language Slapdown" this week 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 > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -- 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 > -- Björn Helgason, Verkfræðingur Fornustekkum II 781 Hornafirði, t-póst: [email protected] gsm: +3546985532 sími: +3544781286 http://groups.google.com/group/J-Programming Tæknikunnátta höndlar hið flókna, sköpunargáfa er meistari einfaldleikans góður kennari getur stigið á tær án þess að glansinn fari af skónum /|_ .-----------------------------------. ,' .\ / | Með léttri lund verður | ,--' _,' | Dagurinn í dag | / / | Enn betri en gærdagurinn | ( -. | `-----------------------------------' | ) | (\_ _/) (`-. '--.) (='.'=) ♖♘♗♕♔♙ `. )----' (")_(") ☃☠ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
