Hi, all I made a workspace (extending the original VisualWorks NonComercial one) to enable editing/translating Chinese J source to J script. It can be used to create new or open existing Chinese script in text area and than hit ctrl+j to translate, as well as typing in the input area and get translated line by line as shown in attached image. I'll wait until VisualWorks's 7.7 release to build a executable for those who are Chinese speaking and just have started learning J( free ). I really hope J will support Unicode words.
http://www.nabble.com/file/p25503286/jws.jpg Alan K. Stebbens wrote: > > > I see some value in applying your ideas to create "wizards" that will > help practitioners of other computer languages to learn J. For > example, taking the most common idioms from other languages and > providing a semi-automatic translator, it may be possible to help > transition curious programmers of other languages into the World of J? > > As you did with Smalltalk, perhaps a good excuse for better learning J > might be to write a J program for converting idioms from popular > languages (eg: ruby, python, C) might be useful? > [.............] > etc. > > This might help convert entire methods into functionally equivalent J > code. > > Of course, J is sufficiently different that this won't work for large > bodies of code -- only small, relatively simple algorithms. But, it > might be interesting to see what such a translator spits out for > increasingly larger code fragments. > > Kind of a bottom-up translator. > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/finally%2C-I%27ve-made-tiny-Smalltalk-program-for-ChineseJ-tp25435672s24193p25503286.html Sent from the J Chat mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
