Robin Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > > On Mon, 05 Feb 2007 17:52:27 +0100, Bjoern Schliessmann > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> declaimed the following > > in comp.lang.python: > > > > >> 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 > >> > > That looks like some variation of APL > > my colleague informs me that it is indeed associated with some of the same > people if not with Mr Iverson.
The late Ken Iverson designed both J and APL (he has also written an number of freely downloadable math books using J, see jsoftware.com). 'as -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
