As as stated in previous email, I don't think a sane human being will think
in that that way and write that J expression directly from his/her head.  
But of course I might be wrong.

Втр, 16 Ноя 2010, Björn Helgason писал(а):
> Hmmm......
> 
> What provocation are you talking about?
> 
> The objective is to get the first number from a list of primes.
> 
> Is there a better way of getting the first number from a list of numbers
> putting them each in a box than making it first a character and the taking
> the first of each element making it a number and summing up the resulting
> list?
> 
> Doing this as a step by step operation as an example and then taking those
> steps and creating a one liner as a further example brought about that line.
> 
> I fail to see how that can be a provocation and what part of it is a
> provocation?
> 
> Is it possible to do without making the step over to chars and back, is it
> possible to do without boxes, is it difficult or hard to read.
> 
> Where is the provocation and who is being provoked by this example and
> exercise in J operations?
> 
> 
> 2010/11/16 bill lam <bbill....@gmail.com>
> 
> > Without knowing the detail, I suspect this is a result of 13 :
> > If that was the case, your provocation would be invalid.
> >
> > Пнд, 15 Ноя 2010, Björn Helgason писал(а):
> > > It would be interesting to know how many J ers can easily read tacit
> > > programs.
> > >
> > > A line like
> > >
> > > [: +/ [: > [: ".&.> [: [ [: {.&.> [: [ [: ":&.>@p: i.
> > >
> > > This is something I am not too comfortable to read nor write just like
> > that
> > > even if I do know what it is supposed to do.
> > >
> > > Question is if people see it as a better way to program like this tacitly
> > > than just do it in more lines and easily understood steps?
> > >
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> 
> -- 
> Björn Helgason, Verkfræðingur
> Fornustekkum II
> 781 Hornafirði,
> t-póst: gos...@gmail.com
> 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

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