Actually I was having a look at Clojure (on which Incanter is based) and was quite intrigued. Clojure is a Lisp derivative and seems to have some quite J/APL-like characteristics with most operations working on all datatypes (strings, vectors, lists, maps ...)
The developer makes quite a point that Clojure is built on the JVM rather than on Java (and is quite disparaging of Java himself). A key feature apparently is that structures are immutable that means it is easy to take advantage of multi-core processors without worrying about locking etc. I have no CS background and limited experience with languages other than APL & J, so would be interested in the impressions of more knowledgeable forum members. http://clojure.blip.tv/ http://clojure.org/rationale > From: bill lam > > On Thu, 17 Sep 2009, Sherlock Ric wrote: > > That stackoverflow question now also mentions a new language Incanter > > http://incanter.org/ > > It said incanter is java based. I just stop reading. May be some > others also got the same reaction. > > -- > regards, > ==================================================== > GPG key 1024D/4434BAB3 2008-08-24 > gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 4434BAB3 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
