The "Short" is from a famous quotation from [Ho51]: the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. "[Ho51]" itself is an amusing instance of the Y2K problem<http://www.jsoftware.com/papers/eem/anecdotes.htm#y2k>. Eugene's paper was written in 1987, a time when the conventional Y2K problem was not yet on most people's horizons. The paper was presented at the APL88 conference in Sydney, Australia. It was on the plane ride back from Sydney that Ken and Eugene invented fork<http://keiapl.org/rhui/remember.htm#fork0> .
On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 2:38 AM, Kip Murray <k...@math.uh.edu> wrote: > Is "Short" a hint? > > On 12/4/2011 4:30 AM, Roger Hui wrote: > > Y'all should take a look at Eugene's paper *Life: Nasty, Brutish, and > Short > > [Ho51]*<http://www.jsoftware.com/papers/eem/life.htm>. What the paper > > talks about seems similar to this thread. > > > > > > > > On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 7:34 PM, Ric Sherlock<tikk...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> Great Henry! > >> I had a brief go at finding an antibase solution but didn't get there. > >> > >> On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 1:00 PM, Henry Rich<henryhr...@nc.rr.com> > wrote: > >>> toss =: (dice =: (6 6 6#:12 145 157 185 197 215)<@:{"1 2 (#:i.6){' > >>> o') {~ 2 10 ?@$ 6: > >>> toss'' > >>> +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+ > >>> |o o|o o|o |o o|o o|o |o | |o o|o o| > >>> | | o | |o o| o | o | | o | | | > >>> |o o|o o| o|o o|o o| o| o| |o o|o o| > >>> +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+ > >>> |o o|o |o o|o |o |o o|o |o o| |o o| > >>> |o o| o |o o| o | |o o| |o o| o |o o| > >>> |o o| o|o o| o| o|o o| o|o o| |o o| > >>> +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+ > >>> > >>> Henry Rich, whose @ will be pried from his cold dead fingers > >> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
