Re: [Jprogramming] Hello, new programmer here!

2021-09-05 Thread Hauke Rehr
As long as one hasn’t understood what 'fill' is and anticipates it happening, I recommend to rather use ; than , ,. ,: when comparing results of (supposedly) related verbs. One might guess that + +. and +: could be just as similar and try (+ , +. ,: +:) 4 5 6 the result of which would not be very

Re: [Jprogramming] Hello, new programmer here!

2021-09-05 Thread Joey K Tuttle
The good news is that a dime's worth of hydro will power your Raspberry Pi for many hours. > On 2021Sep 5, at 14:21, joseph turco wrote: > > find it fascinating, and it also doesn't cost me a dime (well, other than > the hydro). -

Re: [Jprogramming] Hello, new programmer here!

2021-09-05 Thread Raul Miller
Oops, when I copied and pasted d wrote: > > Ok, let's go with the specifics you mentioned here, first. (I couldn't > find the part of the book which matches your expression.) > > The >. verb in X >. Y is *not* greater or equal. X >: Y is greater or equal. > > X >. Y is maximum value -- the result i

Re: [Jprogramming] Hello, new programmer here!

2021-09-05 Thread Raul Miller
Ok, let's go with the specifics you mentioned here, first. (I couldn't find the part of the book which matches your expression.) The >. verb in X >. Y is *not* greater or equal. X >: Y is greater or equal. X >. Y is maximum value -- the result is whichever values from X and Y are the largest (mat

Re: [Jprogramming] Hello, new programmer here!

2021-09-05 Thread 'Michael Day' via Programming
Hello Joseph, Unfortunately,  >.  is not defined as (greater than or equal to) It's very important to realise that >  >.    and   >:   are three different, albeit related,  primitives. and even more important that (nearly?) all symbols or letters used for J primitives can be monographs,  or

Re: [Jprogramming] Hello, new programmer here!

2021-09-05 Thread joseph turco
Hey Raul, I was speaking in context to the book 'arithmetic' not in general. In the exercises for the first chapter for example, it says to use two user defined verbs that the book has you define earlier in the chapter, but the problem is, is that you never do that ( i used the search function, no

Re: [Jprogramming] Hello, new programmer here!

2021-09-05 Thread Raul Miller
You might also want to try some of the J labs. Also... my experience was that I needed to circle back and re-read things after learning parts of the language. While I suppose it's technically true that "all you need to know is how to count", that's true in the sense that calculus is just another m

Re: [Jprogramming] taylor

2021-09-05 Thread Henry Rich
You'll have to write a J model for (u t.). If you are doing polynomial approximation to functions, consider Chebyshev polynomials. Henry Rich On 9/5/2021 2:38 PM, Hauke Rehr wrote: Hello all, I’m still using j807 for much of what I’m doing; trying to port some of it to j903, I’m wondering w

[Jprogramming] taylor

2021-09-05 Thread Hauke Rehr
Hello all, I’m still using j807 for much of what I’m doing; trying to port some of it to j903, I’m wondering what to do about the t. family the vocabulary pages for which are silent about how to replace them in recent versions of J. any suggestions? Hauke -- -- mail written

Re: [Jprogramming] Hello, new programmer here!

2021-09-05 Thread joseph turco
Hello R.E.Boss I Do not have any post-secondary education, and am solely programming just out of recreation is the best way i can put it. Ive only dabbled in other programming languages and didn't find them interesting. I actually Found J after having issues getting Dyalog APL running on my 64-bit

Re: [Jprogramming] Hello, new programmer here!

2021-09-05 Thread R.E. Boss
Can you tell us a bit about your background? Did you program before? Which languages? Why was Italian not a language to learn for fun? Welcome anyhow! One can have worse reasons to learn a language. R. E. Boss -Original Message- From: Programming On Behalf Of joseph turco Sent: zate