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Background on trains: http://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Essays/Trains

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You're maintaining 5000 lines of J code huh? Sounds like a decent sized project. If you are spending 5-10 hours every week or two maintaining it, why not have a go at replacing it …

At the bottom of the page, there are the following instructions: The text requires the APL385 Unicode font, which can be downloaded from https://sites.google.com/site/baavector/fon…

Have you ever used J or APL seriously? If yes, what do you find so "crappy" about the notations? If no, please keep your uninformed opinion to yourself, you have no idea what you a…

Sum in J is +/ not, $&$%^%$%M. Is +/ really too hard to comprehend? I agree with you that APL is historically important, but J is Ken Iverson's last and greatest gift to the progra…

By cleaner, do you mean more verbose? For example, the well known phrase for average in J is (average=: +/ % #). You would have no problem assigning names to the parts of the funct…

You should really reference the online version of the dictionary http://www.jsoftware.com/help/dictionary/contents.htm , it is the current version.