On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 2:10 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 :-). > > "Similarly applications you are using could be written in J or APL > without your knowledge of what it is witten in." > I am more interested in how many people are using J to write programs, not > how many people indirectly come in contact with J. >
I agree that the desirable number is a tally of people who actually write J code in the normal course of a day, week, or month. My estimate of active participants on the J forums and the J wiki is roughly 50. I suspect that the number of people who are comfortable relying on J to meet some of their computational needs puts the user count into the (low?) hundreds. The tally of people who've familiarized themselves with J to a modest degree lies, I'm guessing, in the thousands. But, hey, I'm just making these numbers up, like you are! -- T ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
