> ... I have not found any public documentation that covers what your > looking for. The thing is, I actually wrote one to that effect called J for > C# > programmers which I patterned from the publicly available book J for C > programmer by Henry Rich. Unfortunately, I cannot give you a copy of the > guide I > wrote since its effectively owned by the company I work for.
This is like coming to a food sharing convention and eating everybody's food while not allowing anyone to eat yours. There are both moral and legal issues. Many companies have recognized, in the past few decades, not only the value of open source, free or open content, but the necessity to contribute to it. Some major open projects get sponsored or receive donated content from commercial entities, such as the Apache and Mozilla Foundations, Eclipse, GNU, to name a few. Open content can be compared to the environment and how it is treated: either predatory exploiting, like cutting the rain-forest, or responsible, allowing it to regrow by replanting or giving something back, to prevent its dying out. While corporate legal policies are called to protect intellectual property and ability to generate profit, there should be provisions or considerations regarding both the use of open or free content and sharing, at least the derived or related work, back to the community. There should be boundaries along which a separation between corporate property and common interest content can be made. Regarding effort to produce content, it should be understood as a trade off for the open content that is consumed by the company for free and the effort other people contributed to it. > From: Alex Rufon <[email protected]> > > Oh wow. This is a bit hard for me. You see, I came from VB and > moved/incorporated J because VB cannot do easily what I want to do with > arrays. > > Just retrieving a column from a 2 dimension array requires walking through > the > array row by row. > > Another one is that when I was looking for info/documentation on J so that I > can > learn it ... I have not found any public documentation that covers what your > looking for. The thing is, I actually wrote one to that effect called J for > C# > programmers which I patterned from the publicly available book J for C > programmer by Henry Rich. Unfortunately, I cannot give you a copy of the > guide I > wrote since its effectively owned by the company I work for. Besides, I use > it > for training so there is a lot to be desired ... > > Thinking about it, I would suggest taking a look at Henry Rich book (J for C > programmer) and it may help you categorized the J language and maybe later > on > create your own VB/VBA library that mimics the capabilities of J. :D > > r/Alex > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
