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A comment on An Implementation of J – Incunabulum (2008).

Re:An Implementation of J – Incunabulum (2008) by vadiml on Saturday September 11, 2021 @12:03PM (#28493043)
I did some APL coding like 40 years ago.... I did like it at the time, but this family of languages provokes WRITE ONLY coding style.... While you actively working on some code, it's ok... but when you come back to a code written couple of month ago or written by someone else you're pulling you hair out trying to understand it
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Re:An Implementation of J – Incunabulum (2008) by rscho on Saturday September 11, 2021 @03:48PM (#28495235)
I do statistical computing, and I very much disagree. My single-page J is much easier to read 6 mo later than my 500 loc R script.
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