Re: Lack of software abstractions

dly;

My first instinct is to point you to Joey Tuttle, whose articles about "data
rummaging with J" are quite enlightening. There may be an essay or ten on
the jsoftware site.

Joey, now would be a good time to post some URL's.

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From: "dly" <dydre-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "General forum" <general-eCoxsOKuxbJl57MIdRCFDg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, January 29, 2007 11:55 AM
Subject: Re: [Jgeneral] Lack of software abstractions


> This brings up the topic of good ways to handle large amounts of data,
> not just data that can be regenerated but reference data or records in
> databases.  J is very powerful so there needs to be care taken not to
> overwrite or erase data files.
>
> Are there applications people use with J to manage this?
>
> dly
> dydre-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
>
> On 29-Jan-07, at 3:41 PM, Devon McCormick wrote:
>
> > That's what I was thinking of since the existing code is geared toward
> > saving individual nouns.
> >
> > On 1/29/07, Roger Hui <rhui000-fVOoFLC7IWo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> When the workspace is 250 MB almost certainly most
> >> of it is data (nouns).  One variant could be to save
> >> just the verbs adverbs and conjunctions.  You can
> >> get this by using  nl__y 1 2 3  instead of
> >> nl__y i.4 .
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