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Object-module and imperative techniques are supported, but not required.
The J programming language was designed and developed by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_E._Iverson Ken Iverson] and Roger Hui. It is a closely related successor to [[APL]], also by Iverson which itself was a successor to the notation Ken Iverson used to teach his classes about computers in the 1950s.
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== Reading J ==
J is meant to be read with the aid of a computer. J sentences are single lines and trying variations and simplifications of an expression is common practice. The first step in understanding any J sentence is to understand the data you started with and the data which resulted. If this is obscure for you, you should try simpler sentences.
Unless you attend an institution which has made a J interpreter available to you through your web browser, if you want to see how J works you should probably [http://www.jsoftware.com/stable.htm install] a copy of J. If you want to understand how to experiment with alternative expressions you should probably study some of its [http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Guides/Getting%20Started#Documentation documentation].
== J on RosettaCode ==
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