My guess is that the term "emerging" was chosen to avoid controversy over whether any given language counts as new enough, or successful enough, or unsuccessful enough, to qualify for inclusion.
I can imagine declining to put J forth in such an event because it is by no means new. Participation in the event could be skipped because J is not showing "enough" increased use among languages, too. I'd rather see people go with the assumption that carefully chosen promotions could widen and deepen the awareness and use of J. Promotion can only go so far, I'd readily agree. At some edge it makes sense to simply accept the marginality of this programming language. I would disagree that J might as well be missing from events where the main interest is exposure to unconventional programming languages, such as this one. -- Tracy On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 1:43 PM, Raul Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 12:25 PM, Tracy Harms <[email protected]> wrote: > > The initial Emerging Languages Conference will be occurring in less than > > four months.* (July 21 - 22, 2010 Portland, Oregon)* > > > > Details are available at the following website: > > > > > http://emerginglangs.com/2010/03/31/announcing-the-first-emerging-languages-conference/ > > I looked there for a definition of "emerging language", and > did not find one. > > I am not sure if J is an emerging language (though, given > their list of desired speakers, either K, KDB or Q must be > an emerging language). > > (J has been around for decades, and that's even without > considering its APL origins.) > > -- > Raul > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
