[Jprogramming] What are the strangest features of J?

[schott.brian at gmail.com]

	My greatest shock with APL (and so it extends to J)
is the ability to make code look like a prose phrase of
English (or other language) by naming primitives, nouns,
defined verbs, adverbs, and conjuctions (producing "pro-"
constructs. This is largely an extension to point 4 in your
list.

	This was quite a feature for me because I was trying
to make code look like expert knowledge in an expert system,
and I can see its value in self-documentation, also.

(B=)

On Wed, 25 Jan 2006, Henry Rich wrote:

+ 4.  bivalent verbs; only 2 function operands; x. and y. as reserved words