On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 11:44 AM, Ian Clark <[email protected]> wrote: >> Personally, most of my "thinking in J" uses my visual/spatial >> reasoning rather than my verbal/grammatical reasoning. > > An old colleague of mine, Dr Nick Hammond, of York University, once > designed a psychological "test" or "index" to determine a person's > cognitive style (at least, in one important respect), and showed it to > be remarkably constant across all aspects of life. It seems to have > nothing to do with (general) intelligence, left/right hemisphere > orientation, nor other (popular) mental quality ...but that's a > research question. > > Essentially... > > == Type A picks up a hammer and then looks for something to hit. > == Type B first selects a nail and then looks for something to hit it with. > > Mac/Windows (WIMP) interfaces cater for B's. Unix suits A's.
Interesting... Personally, I much prefer the unix approach to the windowed approach and use cygwin extensively when I use windows. I do not have a mac. This strikes me as conflicting with the way you have characterized problem solving approaches, here. Then again, I keep thinking that this discussion belongs in chat... -- Raul ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
