[Jprogramming] The way we think

[Raul Miller]

On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 4:47 AM, Steven Taylor<taylste at gmail.com> wrote:
> I had to share this.  Using J I was recently able to solve an n-dimensional
> mapping problem using a J array with a shape vector.  The solution needed 4
> operations.  Moving this back to the C / C# world the other developer
> couldn't see that it was a complete solution.  Instead he is now busy
> recreating this in an inefficient tree, or as I suggested, if it must be
> this way, go ahead and use a hash map.

If someone I was working on was doing something like this,
I would ask him what problem he was trying to solve.

> "This isn't the way you do it in .net", he said.  "You need references and
> pointers", he continued.  In his own words he wanted to go for a "zero
> intelligence solution"... but it seems to me more like, "zero intelligence
> but how can I use all the fancy new toys to make it more complex".  Oh, and
> substitute "more complex" with "more maintainable" to
> be politically correct.

And, here, it sounds like he is trying to solve a documentation problem.

And, making up nonsense requirements.

-- 
Raul