Hello Yesterday, I just happened to have found a link to a wonderful resource : the video recordings of Dyalog '11 conference. http://video.dyalog.com/Dyalog11/
There are two videos of particular interests to J programmers, I think. One is John Scholes and Roger's What is Functional Programming? http://video.dyalog.com/Dyalog11/JohnScholesRogerHui_FunctionalProgramming.html I really like John's approach to declarative programming and it has been a great inspiration helping me explore less traveled roads in programming and design. Roger and John, collaboratively, shows what functional programming is, not the plain function programming as espoused by Haskell programmers. The other is a great amazement. This is Eric Iverson's presentation on Vstar. http://video.dyalog.com/Dyalog11/EricIverson_Vstar.html Vstar is a columnar database with a wonderful performance and scalability. Please look at the benchmark results in the video. It shows 100x to 1000x improvement usually, compared to its competitors and traditional RDBMSes. What is really surprising is Vstar is entirely written in J. That is something I didn't expect. I am really happy that there is something like Vstar from the J world. So, if there is anyone here(Eric definitely!) tell me more about the structure of Vstar, and how it is developed in J, and lessons learned, it would substantially benefit J programming community. June ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
