On 10 Jul 2011, at 15:02, David Vaughan wrote: > How can J perform operations on entire arrays without doing it to each > element sequentially? Or does it in fact do this, but abstracts it from the > programmer?
It absolutely abstracts this from the user of J. The idea is to have you think about "what" and let some else---the expert---deal with "how". If, for example, we could recover all the computer time wasted in poorly implemented sort routines, an awful lot of good computational work might be done. (I could go on ... and on ...) > ___________________________ > > David Vaughan > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm -- Dan T. Abell :: dabell at txcorp dot com :: 303.444.2452 Tech-X Corp., 5621 Arapahoe Ave, Ste A, Boulder CO 80303 http://www.txcorp.com :: 303.748.6894/c 303.448.7756/fx ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
