i'm not trying to purposefully copy [Arthur's] style. i've always been trying to write shorter code - there are public traces of how that evolved in ngn/apl and in dyalog's ride. i acknowledge that after seeing some of arthur's code, including b, my mental threshold of what is considered acceptable dropped significantly. once you accept certain principles about the code, for instance that it's more important to be able to hold it at once in your head than to be able to explain it to the uninitiated, this style becomes more efficient and more pleasant
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if you seek simplicity, this style is to a large extent discovered (as opposed to invented)
complicated things can be arranged in many ways. simple in few. that's why it always looks like entropy is increasing in the physical world :)
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