Is it J rant day today? I don't hate anything about J. I just feel constrained because there's no Unicode support for getb() and setb() OLE/COM API's. I really hope this is fixed in J603/J7.
Otherwise ... everything is alright with the world. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Devon McCormick Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 3:04 AM To: Chat forum Subject: Re: [Jchat] the things i dislike most about J Most of these have been addressed, many of them recently. 1. This is peculiar to your problem or implementation of an algorithm. 2. There are numerous ways to deal with this - see http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Scripts/WS Files, (my own) Scripts/File J Variables, or Guides/Persistence. 3. Can't help you here. 4. Spaces are crucial only within quoted strings and between alphanumeric names, much like in most other languages. 5. Try emacs or any other editor. 6. What's so hard about "6!:2"? 7. This is pretty laughable considering how little unnecessary minutiae J has compared to most languages. 8. J is not a symbolic math environment like Maple or Mathematica. 9. You find "plot" too difficult? On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 12:51 PM, DIETER ENSSLEN <[email protected]>wrote: > 1. 'oom's ie out of memory > 2. not being able to easily continue on previous work, save it and it is > stuck in the wrong J on retrieving > 3. no sweet install on small devices > 4. where are the crucial spaces, and where are there no spaces > 5 not being able to easily edit parts of a program gone wrong > 6 not being able to do timing functions easily > 7 we humans having to worry too much about the minutiae and nitty gritty > instead of leaving this to the computer which are much better at that > 8 no easy integration function, limits > 9 no sweet and easy graphing > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > -- Devon McCormick, CFA ^me^ at acm. org is my preferred e-mail ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
