Agreed, and we're heading in that direction. But first, we need good on line teaching materials, or the rest of the equation won't work. We're working hard on that.
Getting people to try APL is actually not THAT hard: We launched a prize competition (http://www.dyalog.com/contest2009/index.html) and will soon reach 200 downloads in a month. Not a HUGE number perhaps, but we haven't spent much on marketing (we'll start spending marketing $$ when the training materials are ready). -----Original Message----- From: Björn Helgason [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 28. maj 2009 12:29 To: Chat forum Subject: Re: [Jchat] No More APL Here you can definitely learn from J non-commersial license being free and the support given (mostly) by other users. The more licenses you can get out and more users using your product the more likely you are to get more commersial licenses and they are both willing and able to pay for support. Not have too much admin for the free stuff and then it should be easy to let interested parties get to download a free copy. It is hard enough to get users to try APL/J even if it is free. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
