On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 2:50 AM, Raul Miller <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I do not do so directly, but I often find that I think about problems > in terms of J, and that that often helps me focus on relevant issues > and useful approaches. > > But shouldn't this discussion be in chat, rather than in programming? > > Raul, Perhaps, but I left it here because I think it pertains to programming. I think in words in English or German. I don't have to puzzle through that; it's become natural enough so that I just do it. When I read something by an author such as Faulkner or Kant, I may indeed have to think more carefully, but that's not the way I normally write. Would I be better off if I thought analytically in J, too? Would increased skill in that regard give me more analytical strength? If so, would I get to the point that writing a program is to thinking as writing an email is to talking: just setting down "on paper" what was going through my head? Would that make me a better programmer? Is that what Ken was talking about when writing about a notation of thought? Feel free to move this to chat or to let it die, as you wish. Bill ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
