James C Field wrote:
> Dan has told us that he has made a living from J. Best of luck to him.
> That's one guy.
I thought I showed you some other guys?
http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Stories
See also the list of " representative users" at the bottom of:
http://www.jsoftware.com
> made a living for hundreds of people in countries
> and corporations around the world.
And Perl makes (not "made") a living for tens of thousands of people in even
more countries around the world, and Java makes (not
"made") a living for millions (tens of millions?) of people in every country
that has electricity*, and ....
As others asked, what scale "counts"? If I had to predict your answer: " as
much as APL, but more doesn't matter".
And I do not see J's comparative niche market as a failure of J, but rather as
a failure of APL (in general). Put another way, J was
poorly timed, catching the tail end of APL's popularity, which has been on the
decline for decades. And as much as I love the
languages, I don't see them coming back. Though some of its best features are
appearing in other languages (particularly, the
automation of the detestable loop). Its legacy, our legacy, will survive.
-Dan
* Yes, I'm making these statistics up.
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