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I thought that "making J look like English" would refer to creating a DSL in it, not substituting J symbols for English keywords. But still, pretty cool.


Yeah, this is really cool. While the grammar remains the same, seeing something like:

``` kmc =: right (step power infinity) initialise initialise =: (left deal tally at right) from right step =: (left groupby allocate rank 1 2) then (mean every) allocate =: euclidean then (equal minimum) then indices then head euclidean =: (minus then square then sum) vectors ```

That's quite readable and compact. I'm fascinated by J now.




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