On Sun, 31 May 2009, PackRat wrote:
> *experience* to attract newcomers. For example, the Windows controls
> editor (as helpful as it is) is about as klutzy as klutzy can be,
> compared with other Windows controls editors available. Or another
> example: compared with the Visual Basic 6.0 IDE (the high point of MS
> BASIC), the J environment is "amateurish". How can you get people
> interested in programming to take a serious look? I really don't want
> to sound negative, because I'm NOT. However, there's an awful lot
> about the J environment that could be overhauled for improvement. I
> know the kinds of things that I'd like to see improved, but I'm nowhere
> near good enough with J to even begin to create those improvements.
> But many of you are...
There was discussion many years ago on the subject of gui. The
decision was not to chase behind vb because that was an impossible
goal, but just provided adequate gui facility in J. With the
infra-structure of wd driver, J was impossible to create any modern
look front-end that resemble vb6 or dotnet now.
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