Aren't there tools to package J's exe file and dll file along with an ijs script as a single file then run J?
2009/6/1 Björn Helgason <[email protected]> > I have an exe file created by Dyalog that runs as is. > > With many programs/applications you get a hell of a lot of DLLs etc and > nobody seems to mind as long as you have an exe file to start the thing. > > Over the years a lot of APL implementors have said there is nothing to it > to > create an exe file is that waht you want and I have said YES! and then > nothing has happened until Dyalog APL did and it makes a huge difference. > > If it is such a small thing to do I can not understand why it is not done. > > I think it basically proves what many people claim and that is that what is > missing in most APLs is marketing and listening to the potential customers. > > Most people do not care about complexities and actually shy away from them. > > Most programming languages and programmers spend most efforts on very > simple > things and most of us in the APL community (including J of course) still > think the simple things are for simple minds and do not bother. > > The discussions of tacit programs and long lines of difficult operations > scare most would be programmers away. > > I see no harm in imitating VB and such if that is what people want to do. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
