Lots of people do want it and over the year that has been one of the primary obstacles against using APL is not having a feature like that.
Dyalog has given us this feature so in a way you could create a Dyalog APL application that would call J en create an exe. 2009/6/1 Zsbán Ambrus <[email protected]> > 2009/5/31 Björn Helgason <[email protected]>: > > 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 > > I don't think that's important, but lots of people seem to want it. > With some work you could do that with J too. There are two ways. One > is to make a self-extracting executable that drops a couple of files > and then runs them. The other is to link the j shared library > statically into an executable that calls it (this gets a bit more > complicated and needs some magic if you want to use the windowing > system of j too). > > Ambrus > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
