My thoughts have often turned to the second paragraph of _A Programming
Language_, where K.E.I. wrote: "Much of applied mathematics … suffers from
the lack of an adequate programming language." My favorite interpretation of
the acronym, APL, has been those last three words.

I extend this sensibility to J. The single word I like best to summarize it
is "adequate."

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Tracy Harms
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