Bjorn wrote: > 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. >
R has been an outsanding example of development of a user community. In the first issue of the R Journal http://journal.r-project.org/ which has just been issued, John Chambers ( a major designer of S on which R was initially based, writes about issues being discussed here from the perspective of the R community. He states that the absence of the feature Bjorn has wants - ability to execute *.exe files from within APL was one of the primary reasons they did not base their development on APL. With the interface to *.dll files J has moved a long way - but making the further step simple would be valuable too. Perhaps too we might explore using the interface to *.dll files much more. Fraser ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
