User talk:Dan Bron
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J explainer
J explainer like http://www.regexbuddy.com/regex.html
could be done in JHP with client-side JavaScript.
Very simply: word formation and lookup to one-line
definitions and links to dictionary.
-- Oleg Kobchenko
RosettaCode
Regarding recent changes you made to RosettaCode:
1. Exponentiation operator is a very nice little essay. I'm really glad you elaborated it as you did, and I'll be pointing others to it.
- Thanks!
1. Sorting Using a Custom Comparator still does not sort correctly. The sort must be both longest-to-shortest, and alphabetical among entries with the same length. The original version met that requirement, clunky though I may have been.
- I'm not sure this is true. I'm pretty sure strings \: ((#&.>strings),.lowercase&.>strings) will sort in the way you suggest (which is what the code does). I'll have to look at it later today.
- I investigated, and you were right, the the code (above) was sorting by size and reverse alphabetical. Fixed now. The new method is essentially strings /: ((-@:#&.>strings),.lowercase&.>strings)
1. Write float arrays to a text file does not meet the specification, contrary to your assurances. Look at the file it produces and compare it with the output shown in the requirements. Your code manages digits to the right of the decimal, not "digits of precision".
- Ah. I read "digits of precision" as "digits after the decimal", and disregared the exponential notation (e.g. e+05) as a limitation of the native formatting of the language of the tasker (i.e. Python). I'll rewrite it later today. Won't be as pretty.
1. I look forward to working together on more entries, as time allows.
- Maybe we should address the the most popular programming tasks first? -- Dan Bron <<DateTime(2008-03-14T12:27:36Z)>> (aka 12.3.123.65)
-- Tracy Harms (aka TBH)
RosettaCode redux
Here are the Rosetta Code tasks that leave me most curious to see a solution in J, but which are beyond my current capabilities. The first three of these baffle me because they involve establishing new types and J has fixed data types.
Formal Power Series
Evens Sum To Even
Defining Primitive Data Types
Amb
Dragon curve
Lucas-Lehmer test
Numerical Integration
-- Tracy Harms
Questions about topics in the Backtick (gerunds) page
Hi Dan,
I enjoyed your essay that summarizes the use of gerunds. In it, you mentioned a few things there which I haven’t seen mentioned elsewhere, and am curious to ask about:
- How to call or make use of atomic representation of modifiers?
- What do you mean by “adverbial programming”, and what is an example?
- What is an example of the usefulness of multidimensional gerund arrays?
If you can point me to any resources/essays that cover these topics in more depth (I haven’t found any), I’d really appreciate that as well. Thanks very much. Cameron Chandoke (talk)