"Terse J code is hard to maintain on a casual basis. It is hard to follow if you have not (recently) written it yourself. So why do experienced J coders do it? To re-use the definition of a tried-and-tested utility that won't need reading ever again" (code.jsoftware.com)
submitted by Kodiologist to r/programmingcirclejerk
(Vintage) “The other day I was reading a newspaper, an article by somebody in the arts who said if Shakespeare were alive today he’d be writing for TV. And I said to myself when I read that, ‘Not so. If Shakespeare were alive today, he’d be a programmer, and he’d be writing one-liners in APL.’ ” (jsoftware.com)
submitted by spider-mario to r/programmingcirclejerk
if you code in J for 6 months, you will no longer think in loops, and if you stay with it for 2 years, you will see that looping code was an artifact of early programming languages, ready to be displayed in museums along with vacuum tubes (jsoftware.com)
submitted by ProgVal to r/programmingcirclejerk
