Re: Lack of software abstractions

> This brings up another point for me.  I imagine people who actual use
> J have devised an environment for themselves but I have nothing
> equivalent to the simple concept of saving an APL workspace.

Not that I agree with this reasoning, but I've figured that having no
workspace prevented the occurence of what I'll call the "dumpster"
workspace, where a )SAVE puts all the detritus that you happen to have into
what turns out to be a permanent form. Over the years, I've gotten used to
having a single workspace, with functions on file, loaded as needed. Thus,
the require verb made perfect sense. In some sense, the workspace idea
encourages lax discipline.

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