Ends of Some Things, with Regret … and Beginnings?

It is with some regret that I’m discontinuing my articles about J and about iLua on the iPad. Here’s why. Also, I have a question.

J: Working with Henry Rich’s Example

Today I’ll report on experience working part way through one piece of Henry Rich’s J program for bowling. Understanding dawns slowly.

We have referred to Rich’s example before. Here it is in its entirety:

NB. Index of each ball that …

J. This is HARD. However …

No, really. This is hard. People ask me why I’m doing it. There are reasons …

J Learnings

Just recording random discoveries as I work through the EasyJ book. Read if all that interested in how I think …

Working Up to J

To do J, you must change the way you think. You must also learn many new words and other parts of speech. Working on part one today …

Alien Voices from Planet J

J is doing strange things to my mind. I must report now, before my thoughts are too alien to communicate at all.

Bowling Vectors

June Kim posted a J Language version of bowling that is very vector-oriented. As an experiment, I coded up a vector-style version in Ruby, TDD of course. It turned out to be kind of interesting.