Bjoern Schliessmann wrote:
> Gosi wrote:
>
>> J is in many ways similar to Python.
>
> The only one I see at the moment is that they're both some kind of
> programming languages.
>
>> J has very many advanced operations.
>
> Sure.
>
> Mh, just looking at some "advanced" J source taken from
> wikipedia.org makes me feel sick:
>
> | Here's a J program to calculate the average of a list of numbers:
> | avg=: +/ % #
> | avg 1 2 3 4
> | 2.5
>
> In the meantime, do you now have an answer to why we should care?
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Björn
>
And why is that superior to this:
def avg(l):
return float(sum(l))/len(l)
>>>avg([1,2,3,4])
2.5
Which can actually be read and debugged in the future!
-Larry
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