Cool! I didn't know that about APL, and thanks for the Dyalog 'n_tacit' link.
This sort of feels like we are two tourists, trying to help each other translate between two languages that neither of us speaks very well. :)
These two pages might help you to build an intuition about how J does verb trains. The diagrams help to explain where the x and y values are used throughout (and where they are not).
I'm starting to be able to write long-ish forks in J without mechanical help, although I usually get them wrong the first dozen times. Practice makes perfect, I guess!
I'm planning to do this year's Advent of Code puzzles (https://adventofcode.com/) in J this year... at least until I reach a problem that explodes my brain. I'm hoping that this will give me something concrete to sharpen my skills on.
This sort of feels like we are two tourists, trying to help each other translate between two languages that neither of us speaks very well. :)
These two pages might help you to build an intuition about how J does verb trains. The diagrams help to explain where the x and y values are used throughout (and where they are not).
https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Vocabulary/hook
https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Vocabulary/fork
I'm starting to be able to write long-ish forks in J without mechanical help, although I usually get them wrong the first dozen times. Practice makes perfect, I guess!
I'm planning to do this year's Advent of Code puzzles (https://adventofcode.com/) in J this year... at least until I reach a problem that explodes my brain. I'm hoping that this will give me something concrete to sharpen my skills on.