Hello, I am new here, and very sceptical about articles and things similar to websites like that of the IEEE.
Such remind me of a well known book "How to lie with statistics". No one here is being called a liar by me. For me, it's impossible not to think of sayings like: --if your only tool is a hammer, all of your problems might look like nails --a woman more right than her neighbors constitutes a majority of one (Thoreau). The fundamental issue here is what criteria make a language a top programming language? Certainly not number of users. That's like saying Honda's are better than Lamborghini's because Lamborghini makes only a few 1000 cars per year. J for me is a convienent calculator but for some people J and APL are their Thor's hammer. My reason for joining this forum is to improve over time my understanding of J. Loglan could become the top communications language for directing one's android (robot). Much of the world AFAIK still runs on COBOL. Cheers, Bernie P.S.: Thoreau was correct but his statement does not particularly apply to choice of programming languages. On Aug 5, 2018 01:16, "Skip Cave" <[email protected]> wrote: I have fun answering math questions on Quora using J. I've answered nearly 1500 math questions there, using J code to find the solutions. Skip Skip Cave Cave Consulting LLC On Sat, Aug 4, 2018 at 11:34 AM Devon McCormick <[email protected]> wrote: > It's good to see J here at all and up a little - from 47 to 44 - from the > last such list I saw. Remember that all of us can help this sort of thing > by being active on popular forums. > > On Fri, Aug 3, 2018 at 2:21 PM greg heil <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >Their "Top Programming Languages" list is a composite of 12 frequencies > > in various venues. On their widget they include 4 weightings of those 12 > > values. Each can be edited ... i messed with the "custom" ranking a bit, > > and got a score over 30 ... but i am sure it can be tweaked more, knowing > > the venues J is popular in. > > > > Hint, i upped Hacker News > > > > ~greg > > http://krsnadas.org > > > > -- > > > > from: Kenneth Lettow <[email protected]> > > to: [email protected] > > date: 3 August 2018 at 09:57 > > subject: [Jchat] IEEE Top programming languages 2018 > > > > Nice to see J represented. > > > > > https://spectrum.ieee.org/at-work/innovation/the-2018-top-programming-languages > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > > > -- > > Devon McCormick, CFA > > Quantitative Consultant > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
