A look at the J language: the fine line between genius and insanity
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A look at the J language: the fine line between genius and insanity
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Re: A look at the J language: the fine line between genius and insanity
#2i'd rather code in brainfuck than this
Re: A look at the J language: the fine line between genius and insanity
#3God sees you. You are stupid fucks.
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Re: A look at the J language: the fine line between genius and insanity
#4Dear language creators
Stop creating non-googlable language names
R already is trouble enough, at least C is more known but still confusing
Re: A look at the J language: the fine line between genius and insanity
#5A relevant question on the Quantitative Finance StackExchange as to whether J/JDB can be used as an effective replacement for Q/KDB+ can be read here: http://quant.stackexchange.com/questions/1870/can-the-j-lang...
Re: A look at the J language: the fine line between genius and insanity
#6Dear language creators Stop creating non-googlable language names R already is trouble enough, at least C is more known but still confusing
Given that this language predates the founding of Google by almost a decade I think we can forgive them for not thinking about how "googlable" the name is.
Re: A look at the J language: the fine line between genius and insanity
#7Dear language creators Stop creating non-googlable language names R already is trouble enough, at least C is more known but still confusing
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&gfns=1&#...
Not entirely sure I understand the problem here.
Re: A look at the J language: the fine line between genius and insanity
#8On a related note, have a look at the one page prototype interpreter by Arthur Whitney that later became J, a true work of art:
Re: A look at the J language: the fine line between genius and insanity
#9Dear language creators Stop creating non-googlable language names R already is trouble enough, at least C is more known but still confusing
J the programming language is the first and third hit on Google.
I never get this criticism anyway, just add some context ("programming", "language", "snippets", "libs" or whatever) and just about anything will be easy to find. Surely beats those ugly unique names that people come up with, give me Go over Clojure any day.
Re: A look at the J language: the fine line between genius and insanity
#10I found the codemonk series on J very entertaining as well: http://drj11.wordpress.com/category/j/
Does anyone on the board use J / K daily? What for?