The J Language: Consistency, Adjacency, and Solution-Oriented Programming - Tracy Harms
Channel: Maitria Alex Harms
Date: 20/06/2016

Programmers without array-language experience are often shocked by J programs because they look so different.

What lets J code be so short are consistencies that let many things go unsaid. Among these consistencies is a tight syntax in which adjacency of tokens has immediate semantic power.

Experience for yourself the way terse expression comes from this minimalism. Glimpse why those who learn this language tend to prefer it so strongly ever after.