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Congrats on your work with APL. Please do not engage in flaming on obsolete business concerns from 30 years past, on a repeated basis. J is fine, great, easier
by jpf0 5y ago
Congrats on your work with APL. Please do not engage in flaming on obsolete business concerns from 30 years past, on a repeated basis.
J is fine, great, easier license, has a larger and more powerful set of primatives.
- robomartin 5y agoFlaming? Please. You are free to provide a counter-argument. Here’s the key question you have to answer: After decades of not only inventing, but using, promoting and educating about the advantages of a specialized notation for programming. Did Iverson start J because it was a distinctively better path than APL? No. Of course not. After nearly thirty years of brilliantly creating and promoting his notation Iverson made a mistake. It would not be the first time in the history of technology this happened, and it won’t be the last.