Technical Documentation: Implementing the J Programming Language in C
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Summary
This document describes an implementation of the J programming language in C. J is a dialect of APL that uses ASCII characters and extends concepts from APL\360 with arrays, verbs, adverbs, and rank. The implementation aims to be simpler and more powerful than previous APL dialects while removing anomalies. The document serves as technical documentation for programmers implementing or working with the J language.
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· 5 pulledJ is a dialect of APL freely available on a wide variety of machines.
The spelling scheme uses the ASCII alphabet.
The underlying concepts, such as arrays, verbs, adverbs, and rank, are extensions and generalizations of ideas in APL\360.
Anomalies have been removed. The result is at once simpler and more powerful than previous dialects.
This document describes an implementation of J in C.
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