I work with several other languages, usually several times a week.  The two
major ones are R and Pascal, both because they're supported by the software
I support.  I had to look at some C++ recently and continue to be amazed
that a lot of people prefer that.

I miss J nearly every time I have to do something in another language, even
R, which has some limited array capabilities.  The last time I had to write
some non-trivial R code to deliver to a client, I first wrote it in J
because I could be more certain that I'd gotten it right - it's simpler for
translating math and easier to test - then used the J as the basis for my R
code, mostly to ensure that the tests gave the same results.  The J code
took a few minutes to write and test, the R code about 15 minutes, mostly
because I had to write a loop and hit the off-by-one problem about three
times in a five-line loop.

On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 1:09 PM, Raul Miller <[email protected]> wrote:

> I wrote:
> > And, if a few lines of J can replace a few dozen lines of code in some
> >
>
> ...
>
> I'm still waiting for that guy to complete his sentence...
>
> I think it would have gone something like "... if a few lines of J can
> replace a few dozen lines of code written in some other language, and
> if it would also take 10 times longer to get things working in the
> other language, and if the J version turns out to be faster ... why
> not just stick with J?"
>
> And that happens to match some of my recent experiences.
>
> But I need to get some quirks worked out of the .deb packaging in the
> context of ubuntu. Which in turn means spinning up a variety of test
> machines and working through whatever issues they reveal.
>
> Nothing is ever easy.
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Raul
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