Raul : Two specific things jump out at me:
1. The phrase "people scared of admitting their own ignorance" seems a bit dismissive and I would suspect rather off-putting to any outsiders who came to the page hoping to find a reason to try J. 2. The phrase "people skilled in the language are in high demand, especially in financial and engineering communities" is surprising to me. As a newcomer, the impression I get is that there are approximately zero open J-related jobs in the world, and a small demand for APL developers from companies wanting to maintain (or replace) legacy systems. I am not the only person who shares this perception. I know at least one J developer who started learning APL recently specifically because it seemed like that's where the work is. From what I can tell, most of the people who hang out in the IRC channel seem to treat J as a fun hobby, either for code golfing, project Euler, or just a change of pace from the norm. If there really is a demand, maybe as a community we could find a better way to let people know. I for one would love to do some J contract work. :) As for the rest of the essay... For what audience are you writing this? From the title I was sort of expecting some reasons to use J, but it mostly seems to be a response to various criticisms of APL. I think the strongest pro-j idea in the piece is this part at the end: "My experience has been that if I can't express a computing concept in J then I do not really understand it. If I can express it in J then it's easy to translate that knowledge into other languages (like javascript)." I suppose if I were an English teacher, I might suggest making that your thesis and expanding the idea... :) -Michal On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 8:35 AM, Raul Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > I've a new wiki essay up: http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Essays/WhyJ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
