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From: hui@fid.morgan.com (Roger Hui)
Subject: Re: Source Code of 6.??
Message-ID: <1993Jan30.232511.28879@fid.morgan.com>
Keywords: GCC, ReadLine Interface
Organization: Morgan Stanley & Co., New York, NY
References: <1993Jan27.200013.5549@csi.uottawa.ca>
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1993 23:25:11 GMT
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Christopher Browne writes:

> ...
> A while back, I'd looked at the source code, and thought that it was
> written in Obfusticated C.  In looking again, I think I was wrong.  It
> just LOOKS confusing, and that's probably a function of J being a
> fairly complex language.

The source assumes familiarity with both J and C, and is 
essentially J under a veneer of C symbols and syntax.  The reader 
who knows C but not J operates at a greater disadvantage than one 
who knows J but not C. 
