Category talk:J

Can we call this language "esoteric"? I think any language where emoticons are mathematical instructions deserves that title. Some lines look like Befunge...like this one from the wiki:

p2=.(".@(,&'x') %&x: <:@(x.&^)@#) p

That line presumably does math. --Mwn3d 07:31, 10 December 2007 (MST)

I wouldn't call it "esoteric"...Esoteric languages, to my mind, are ones that make difficult even common tasks. A look at J's quicksort wouldn't lead me to that conclusion. --Short Circuit 08:37, 10 December 2007 (MST)

Yeah, you're right. I guess I didn't look at enough examples. --Mwn3d 08:53, 10 December 2007 (MST)

Definitely not esoteric, though very hard to read unless you have learned the vocabulary and tacit programming idioms. I would encourage folks to annotate the examples here and also contribute well annotated examples to the Literate Programs wiki (see Help:Similar Sites). --IanOsgood 13:11, 10 December 2007 (MST)