J for C Programmers

by Henry Rich

An introduction and reference for the J programming language, an array language of extraordinary productivity. The reader learns the elements of J in terms familiar to a C or Java programmer, and then goes on to learn how to think about problems J-style, working with whole-array operations rather than loops.

329 pages, Paperback

Published April 7, 2009

Reviews

[Jake Glenn]

nouns verbs adverbs conjunctions helps for parsing and the greedy execution problem and
many implicit things like forks and hooks, very hard to parse when you aren’t familiar with every symbol
maybe too much overloading, monadic vs dyadic and types of args
I like the . and : in names, it reminds me of hebrew vowels