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
