I would like to go to this but don't have the time. I would contribute toward sponsoring Raul or Bob.
One of the things that motivated my most recent talk on J is that the simple, powerful J (and APL) idea of arrays is largely unknown - I continue to see new languages do a crap job of this. Just the idea that an array has a shape denoted by a vector of non-negative integers and the length of the shape vector determines the dimensionality of the array is so simple and so powerful that it's astounding it hasn't become universal. This illustrates the quote attributed to Howard Aiken: "Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to cram them down peoples' throats." I would like to help start cramming. On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 1:28 PM, Raul Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > Earlier this month, Skip Cave suggested that some of us attend ACM's June > SIGPLAN workshop. > > http://jsoftware.com/pipermail/chat/2014-February/005692.html > http://jsoftware.com/pipermail/chat/2014-February/005693.html > > I think that this was an excellent suggestion, but I do not know if anyone > else agrees. > > Is anyone planning on going? > > Does anyone want to sponsor me going? Or, better yet, sponsor Robert > Bernecky? > > Note also the paper submission process - does anyone have topics they would > like to present to the ACM? We have a wonderfully powerful platform here, > and there's a lot we can do with it. Someone should be doing some bragging > for us. (Unfortunately that can be difficult to do when everything seems so > simple. But simplicity really is a virtue.) > > Anyways, if we are to succeed as a community we need to be reaching out to > other communities and helping them, and I expect that the ACM could use > some help. > > Thanks, > > -- > Raul > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > -- Devon McCormick, CFA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
