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Re:Handwriting Programs in J by vforgione on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @01:53PM (#15451674)
> 6 - 1 = 5 > 6

Stopped right after the author explained that line. What benefits does this offer over LtR programming languages? I would consider debugging this as a form of punishment.

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Re:Handwriting Programs in J by hwayne on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @03:13PM (#15452489)
Most languages aren't LtR, either! For example, what's this in python?

    2 + 2 * 4 / 1 + 1
In J, that's very obviously 6: as it's 2 + (2 * (4 / (1 + 1))). In Python, it's 11, as there's order of operations to think about: 2 + (2 * 4 / 1) + 1. Strict LtR is not always preferable, but when you're pipelining a lot of tricky array operations it makes it a lot easier to understand the code.
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Re:Handwriting Programs in J by vforgione on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @05:26PM (#15453636)
For simple arithmetic I find that extremely confusing. I also would have guessed that the equals was an assertion for the addition.
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Re:Handwriting Programs in J by betenoire on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @02:09PM (#15451830)
> what benefits

Easily hand written?

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