Andrew Pennebaker <[email protected]> wrote: > Woah. This is a much deeper language than I thought. I expected J to be > like Single Assignment C, or Factor but backwards.
Indeed. It (and the very few languages in its lineage) are deep; and they connect directly back to FP, the language that founded what we now call Functional Programming. Read about FP, and what you see will look more like J than any so-called functional language. "Factor but backwards" is a fair way to look at it, when it helps. J's syntax is in some sense the opposite of Factor's, since Factor was inspired by Concatenative languages, while J is one of the more purely Applicative languages I've seen. > Andrew Pennebaker > www.yellosoft.us -Wm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
