It doesn't look like you counted that differently from the way I did - I accounted for monadic versus dyadic - and - in my latest revision - I added the distinct circle functions. You can see where I'm at by looking at "The Size of J.pdf" in the "Materials" section for this evening's meeting: http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/NYCJUG/2011-08-09 .
Anyway, my final number is 365 and I'm sticking to it, not the least because it leads naturally to a "J a-day" method for learning the language. What number did you come up with? On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 5:33 PM, Murray Eisenberg <[email protected]>wrote: > Some years ago at a J conference I gave a talk comparing J with > Mathematica. One of the things I considered was the number of built-in > objects. > > One of the points I made, which really riled Ken Iverson, was that (at > that time) the number of such objects was not really all that different > between Mathematica and J. And to arrive at that conclusion, I counted > the objects in quite a different way from what you did. > > -- Devon McCormick, CFA ^me^ at acm. org is my preferred e-mail ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
