Calling J from Python

[Alexander Schmolck]

Robin Becker <robin at reportlab.com> writes:

> Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> > On Mon, 05 Feb 2007 17:52:27 +0100, Bjoern Schliessmann
> > <usenet-mail-0306.20.chr0n0ss at spamgourmet.com> 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).

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