Just wanted to point out that the application referred to by John runs on the latest J Engine. Nothing obsolete about that application or the technology it is built on. Cognos is now owned by IBM.
On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 2:53 PM, John Baker <[email protected]> wrote: > If you count "users of J software" the numbers are in the thousands. I > know > this for a fact since a key component of Cognos Planning is largely powered > by an obsolete version of J with some special purpose C code bolted in. At > the place I am currently working there are over 100 users of J and none of > them know it. Their tiny little brains would be horrified if they knew the > awful truth. > > As with all successful "apl/j/mathematica/f#/strange scary language > language > systems" it's been a dream of Cognos to get rid of both APL and J and > replace them with something ordinary, (read cheap), programmers can deal > with. There have been four attempts to oust APL from Cognos Planning that > I > know off and two to get rid of J and yet I still see J happily crunching > numbers on our servers here. > > There may be a lot more J out there than you realize. > > On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 2:39 PM, Raul Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 6:10 AM, Matthew Brand <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > "You can put whatever number you like." > > > > > > Okay, thanks. I will go with 100 for now. Anybody got a better estimate > > :-). > > > > 100 users sounds good, at least until we can define what we mean by > > "users". > > > > (For example, some people have taught classes in J, and I expect that > > more than 100 people have taken classes from people teaching J.) > > > > -- > > Raul > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > > > > > -- > John D. Baker > [email protected] > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
