I just recently stummbled upon this jem of a language which is competing with Haskell for my favorite. It has EXCELLENT documentation allows for both functional and object oriented programming. And part from technical reasons, it just is fun to use. Im trying to turn as many people onto it as I can
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Anonymous2011-08-27 20:02
it's shit, and fuck you faggot
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Anonymous2011-08-27 20:09
When it was open-sourced a few months ago I told myself I'd take a look at it, but still haven't.
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Anonymous2011-08-27 20:15
Sounds like a pack of shit
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Anonymous2011-08-27 21:48
Looks interesting. I don't know if I like all of the periods, though. I'm sure I can tolerate them.
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Anonymous2011-08-27 22:03
I LOVE LISP
Looks interesting. I don't know if I like all of the parentheses, though. I'm sure I SHALL NOT FUCKING tolerate them nor people who use that shit language.
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Anonymous2011-08-27 22:16
I LOVE MJ
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Anonymous2011-08-27 22:23
>>3
>j
open-sourced
You must be joking. J is harder to read than assembly.
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Anonymous2011-08-27 23:39
not python, not relevant!
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Anonymous2011-08-28 2:17
>>8
It's an APL derivative, you either hate it or love it.
I've noticed those in the latter category are either savants, high-IQ, or businessmen.
If you don't comment your J code and keep your lines short, you're an idiot. (Or a code golfer.)
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Anonymous2011-08-28 14:18
OP here, I actually used to use APL at work and loved it but they had the money for the license and there are no good open source APL implementations. But I just love how simple it is to write complicaded programs with little code. (Its like PERL ON STEROIDS lol). And while I do like writing short scripts in it for me its yet to be seen how usefull it would be for a big project especially beause it doesnt have many libraries
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unfortunately im currently away from home for about a week and am using a borrowed laptop so dont have any personal examles but their website gives some examples [urlhttp://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Scripts[/url]. And I have mainly been using it for classwork since I went back to school since its easier to debug so I can spend more time on the material rather than boilerplate code.
and >>17
I had a summer position at a midsized local morgatge firm. It was kind of funny, I was a CS major but by the end they had me doing almost as much plain old buisness as coding
>>18
I guessed it. if someone says they regularly use APL it's almost certainly something in that sector.
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Anonymous2011-08-29 9:52
>>20
And while APL still holds a special place in my heart at this point J is just more practical . And I find both languages r eal ly allow for a fairly natural thought process
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Sure! Anything that you find useful for everyday computing. Or some snippet you're especially proud of. It doesn't have to be related to finance. Again, I'm just curious.
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Anonymous2011-08-29 19:25
That is the ugliest syntax I have ever seen in my life. The whole thing is about as ugly as Lisp.
I am also a J lower. I would gladly paste some great code as this place is (or was) /prog/ and people lowe (or used to lowe) to see code.
Unfortunately my dog bites my keyboard and fucked up the `\/' key so I can't ctrl+C ctrl+\/. I also use an old one-button Apple mouse and can't right-click.
Besides there is a strange kernel bug and the paste buffer seems to be always allocated at the wery same RAM address which is physically damaged due to the unusually high lewel of cosmic radiations from the Sun's last big eruption.
I just recently converted to this gem of a faith which is competing with Allah for my favorite. It has EXCELLENT documentation allows for both functional and object oriented prayer. And part from technical reasons, it just is fun to use. Im trying to turn as many people onto it as I can