index • post archive • atom feed syndication feed icon 2020-04-18 I've been reading up on J and decided another small project was in order, this time I've written a minimal ray tracer. Brevity J is, perhaps infamously, a terse language. I think it may sometimes get unfairly discounted for this brevity because of the flavor of the syntax (namely, ASCII). It can be a little hard to describe, but the syntax isn't the hard part of learning J, the jarring parts are a result of the paradigm difference...