Dyalog APL has one thing of importance J does not have and that is the ability yo create exe files in M$ that you can click on and run.
Ok in J you can create bat files to run but it is not the same 2009/5/31 Matthew Brand <[email protected]> > >> 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 > -- Björn Helgason, Verkfræðingur Fugl&Fiskur ehf, Þerneyjarsundi 23, Hraunborgum Po Box 127,801 Selfoss , t-póst: [email protected] gsm: +3546985532 Landslags og skrúðgarðagerð, gröfuþjónusta http://groups.google.com/group/J-Programming Tæknikunnátta höndlar hið flókna, sköpunargáfa er meistari einfaldleikans góður kennari getur stigið á tær án þess að glansinn fari af skónum /|_ .-----------------------------------. ,' .\ / | Með léttri lund verður | ,--' _,' | Dagurinn í dag | / / | Enn betri en gærdagurinn | ( -. | `-----------------------------------' | ) | (\_ _/) (`-. '--.) (='.'=) ♖♘♗♕♔♙ `. )----' (")_(") ☃☠ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
