In terms of a talk: is it possible to build something, dense but impressive, in front of your audience, with running commentary as you develop it?
I'm picturing a traditional REPL-driven process, with completed and accepted of code persisted in a script. I did this for a friend & colleague of mine recently and he was blown away. If one is used to mainstream, verbose, scalar von Neumann languages, then seeing J -- especially seeing someone use J effectively -- can be very impressive. -Dan PS: if you develop something in the REPL, it will likely be tacit, and will emphasize verb trains as a matter of course. PPS: maybe Conway's Game of Life? Please excuse typos; composed on a handheld device. On May 19, 2013, at 11:03 AM, Tracy Harms <[email protected]> wrote: > I've been accepted to speak on J at the Emerging Languages Camp, 18 > September 2013, prior to the Strange Loop software conference that occurs > the following two days in St. Louis, Missouri. This talk will be available > only to attendees of the conference who also purchase the additional > admission to Emerging Languages Camp. > > The Camp's announcement on my presentation is here: > https://thestrangeloop.com/sessions/the-j-programming-language > > The main conference site, unsurprisingly, is https://thestrangeloop.com/ > > At the most recent presentation I made on J, last month at Detroit Lambda > Lounge, I spoke for about an hour and a half, before another half hour of > questions and discussion. The time available for presenting at ELC will be > closer to a half hour, so I clearly must cut most of the content from my > previous talk. This challenge of editing is magnified by my intent to > stress verb trains more than I have in past talks. > > The slides from my talk in April are available from my J wiki page: > http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/TracyHarms > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
