[Jprogramming] Higher-order functions in J, or, programming without verbs.

[Henry Rich]

J before version 5 defined this train and many more,
and you could do what you want using its features.

Those trains were removed because there weren't half a dozen users who 
were really familiar with them.

I miss them.  Not that they were faster, or easier to use - they were 
hard to write and hard to read, and the verbs they produced were no 
different from the ones produced by 1 : - but they were so austerely 
elegant.  I never found a problem I couldn't express tacitly.

Henry Rich

   I dont want to go back there because they all knew me when I was 
smart
   and maybe theyll laugh at me.

   -- Flowers for Algernon

> 
> I think we should consider making some room in the interpreter 
> to get around this misfortune, for instance by giving to, currently 
> erroneous, train:
> 
>    adverb conjunction adverb  
> 
> some meaning, oriented towards writing tacit conjunctions, 
> adverbs or verbs.
>