>> Is this provocative statement a bait waiting for Morten to bite ;-)
No comment :-)). That is impression I get wrt APL, legacy and price though. If we look at the situation logically, APL came first and was revolutionary. But it had some things about it that were not quite right. Then J came along without those things and with a whole bunch more stuff. So that means that the only reason to choose APL over J is due to legacy or irrationally. Such as deciding that expensive is best or believing that it won't be around for very long due to lack of funding - although it has not been disclosed on this thread how much income the consulting generates so we cannot make that assumption at this stage. On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 2:44 PM, bill lam <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, 31 May 2009, Matthew Brand wrote: >> On a serious note, I get the impression that the two main reasons >> people choose APL is legacy and the psychological disorder related to >> our expectations of increased quality as a function of price. > > Is this provocative statement a bait waiting for Morten to bite ;-) > > Seriously, I dislike the way dyalog allied with m$ and dotnet. > However I agree that dyalog can be more commercially successful than > J. There is a chinese idiom "曲高和寡" which I googled it to mean > "caviar to the general" > > -- > regards, > ==================================================== > GPG key 1024D/4434BAB3 2008-08-24 > gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 4434BAB3 > 唐詩214 李商隱 籌筆驛 > 猿鳥猶疑畏簡書 風雲常為護儲胥 徒令上將揮神筆 終見降王走傳車 > 管樂有才原不忝 關張無命欲何如 他年錦里經祠廟 梁父吟成恨有餘 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
