Yes - but not necessarily funny ones: moot.aplwiki.com/BeyondCompilation . On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 8:57 AM, Edward Mokurai Cherlin <moku...@sugarlabs.org> wrote: > On Wed, April 4, 2012 12:18 am, Devon McCormick wrote: >> So, the joke that paragraph doesn't contain, is it about what empty >> arrays those other languages don't have? > > Well played. > > More precisely, what jokes other programming languages are. ^_^ > >> On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 9:49 PM, Edward Mokurai Cherlin >> <moku...@sugarlabs.org> wrote: >> ... >>> The next paragraph does not contain any jokes. The one after does. >>> >>> It is very easy to prove that any computable function can be expressed >>> in one line of APL, as I showed in APL News, Vol. 21, No. 1. A >>> slightly trickier problem is to prove that a program for any >>> computable function can be written in APL using only empty arrays. >>> Without nesting, empty arrays have only shape and type, but with >>> nesting they can have prototypes, allowing much greater variety of >>> data structures. LISP has one empty array, commonly known as NIL and >>> written (); almost all other programming languages have none. >> ... >> -- >> Devon McCormick, CFA >> ^me^ at acm. >> org is my >> preferred e-mail >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >> > > > -- > Edward Mokurai (默雷/निशब्दगर्ज/نشبدگرج) Cherlin > Silent Thunder is my name, and Children are my nation. > The Cosmos is my dwelling place, the Truth my destination. > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Replacing_Textbooks > > > -- > Edward Mokurai (默雷/निशब्दगर्ज/نشبدگرج) Cherlin > Silent Thunder is my name, and Children are my nation. > The Cosmos is my dwelling place, the Truth my destination. > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Replacing_Textbooks > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
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