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Untying the Gordian knot: agreement in J

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APL '95: Proceedings of the international conference on Applied programming languages

Pages 145 - 153

https://doi.org/10.1145/206913.206992

Published: 08 June 1995 Publication History

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The “Dictionary of J” is not written for the faint of heart. Its numerous self-references make it very difficult to tackle. The author thinks that section II.B, “Verbs”, is one of the keys for getting a confident grip of the language. This paper basically just repeats this section using a tutorial style, some historical background, and several pictures. Hopefully, it will enable people with analytical minds to find their own way through the Dictionary. It closes with a discussion of possible language changes in the context of II.B

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Untying the Gordian knot: agreement in J
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. General programming languages
      1. Language features
        Procedures, functions and subroutines
      2. Language types
2. Theory of computation
  1. Semantics and reasoning
    1. Program constructs
      1. Functional constructs

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APL '95: Proceedings of the international conference on Applied programming languages

June 1995

240 pages

ISBN:0897917227

DOI:10.1145/206913

Chairman:
John E. Howland,
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Marc Griffiths,
Diane Whitehouse

ACM SIGAPL APL Quote Quad Volume 25, Issue 4
June 1995
218 pages
ISSN:0163-6006
DOI:10.1145/206944
Editors:
Marc Griffiths,
Diane Whitehouse,
John E. Howland
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