2010/2/27 DIETER ENSSLEN <[email protected]>: > I am at the moment at peace with J. (Now that I know how awkward it is to > save and retrieve files and switching back from ijs to ijx and that there > is no listing as such of multiline 'programs')
If you have accepted ijs as a means of editing programs in J then you should know that it is really very easy to edit any kind of programs. You can open the ijs in any kind of editor and you can make it look as fancy as you like with spaces between lines, in lines and have as many lines as you want in a program. Every time you want to look at the program, change it or whatever you just look at it in the ijs. That is really easy. Once you want to execute your program you pipe the program into J execution so it will be ready to receive arguments. Then if you pipe the name to J without arguments J will display it. Then when you pipe it into J with arguments it gets executed and takes the argurments and operates on them. In a similar manner you can start J and pipe an ijs into J and all the programs get executed and then the ijs is treated like a program. The ijs then contains instructions to do all kinds of things and you actually do not need to see anything happen while it is running and you can have J list the results in files and show you a log of what happened if you want. You can also have J running and communicate with it through a gui of your choice. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
