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.
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