On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 10:13 AM, Michal Wallace <[email protected]>wrote:
> > 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. :) > > Michal, I agree with your perspective about lack of full time / contract work related to J. I haven't looked though, but I've never seen it come up. More generally, I agree with Raul that the data munging, querying, calculating skills are in high demand for positions that are analytical. Most jobs can have some component of analytics. For example, a sales person might even want to do some calculations on her territory. Strong skills in those areas can really differentiate candidates for engineering, financial and general business management jobs. Someone with extremely strong excel skills is a more able candidate. The same argument can be made of J. > 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 essay is fairly technical in nature and requires a fairly steep baseline of knowledge. I agree that it might be helpful to identify the audience up front. Maybe even have a "Why J?" for different types of audiences ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
