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Re:Arthur Whitney's 'B' Language by 4thaccount on Thursday March 28, 2019 @09:43PM (#19518443)
Thanks for the recommendation. I'll keep that in mind. If you ever get the chance I'd love to read some more J related articles as I find the language weirdly fascinating even though it ain't easy. The community doesn't write a lot of marketing junk either. I've been reading through "J the Natural Language for Analytic Computing" to scratch the itch when it comes up. I'm always impressed when I find that it has things like derivatives as a native primitive.
Re:Arthur Whitney's 'B' Language by scottlocklin on Friday March 29, 2019 @12:05PM (#19522827)
That's a really badass trick when you look at how it is implemented. Another cool thing to look at is Obverse. https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Vocabulary/Inverses

There's a lot of material on their website, though it's not well organized and some of it is out of date.

https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Main_Page

I find it rewarding to screw around with, though the only jobs you're gonna get are K/Kx related.

Re:Arthur Whitney's 'B' Language by 4thaccount on Friday March 29, 2019 @02:24PM (#19524210)
I've heard of obverse, but had forgotten about it. That is neat. Thanks for sharing.