Invisible wrote:
> Darren New wrote:
> 
>> Lots of meta power in J, with functions that take other functions as 
>> arguments and stuff like that.
> 
> We call them "high-order functions". ;-)

That too.  J has "adjectives" and "adverbs", and I don't remember offhand 
what the difference is. It's worth reading the documents, tho.

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Darren New wrote:
> Actually, the language "J" (http://www.jsoftware.com/) is the next level 
> up from APL, letting you write "adjectives" and "adverbs", making APL 
> into a more meta kind of language closer to Haskell than Excel. Plus it 
> uses ASCII, which I think is actually a drawback except from the 
> practical POV.

It looks interesting, so I'll see if I can find some spare time to check 
it out.

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