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:::To put it another way: if learning J is analogous to learning Japanese, then teaching J is analogous to teaching Japanese, and marking-up the solutions is analogous to trying to elucidate the beauty of a Japanese haiku to someone who is only familiar with English ballads. |
:::To put it another way: if learning J is analogous to learning Japanese, then teaching J is analogous to teaching Japanese, and marking-up the solutions is analogous to trying to elucidate the beauty of a Japanese haiku to someone who is only familiar with English ballads. |
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:::Of course, we don't have to choose one extreme or the other. If I think a solution merits deeper consideration, sometimes I (or my J-brethren) will write up a longer exposition on the task's Talk page, and link to it from the solution, e.g. [Talk:Zig_Zag#reading_the_J_examples|Zig Zag] (which explanation helped other languages improve their solutions). But explanations of that depth take |
:::Of course, we don't have to choose one extreme or the other. If I think a solution merits deeper consideration, sometimes I (or my J-brethren) will write up a longer exposition on the task's Talk page, and link to it from the solution, e.g. [[Talk:Zig_Zag#reading_the_J_examples|Zig Zag]] (which explanation helped other languages improve their solutions). But explanations of that depth take some effort, so I don't it for many solutions. |
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:::--[[User:DanBron|DanBron]] 23:34, 21 December 2012 (UTC) |
:::--[[User:DanBron|DanBron]] 23:34, 21 December 2012 (UTC) |
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