There are (at least) two new emerging front ends to J that are of major interest.
A browser front end and a gtk front end. Problem is they are in early beta stages so it is too soon to present them to a wider audience. 2010/4/1, Tracy Harms <[email protected]>: > 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 > -- Björn Helgason, Verkfræðingur Fornustekkum II 781 Hornafirði, t-póst: [email protected] gsm: +3546985532 sími: +3544781286 http://groups.google.com/group/J-Programming Tæknikunnátta höndlar hið flókna, sköpunargáfa er meistari einfaldleikans góður kennari getur stigið á tær án þess að glansinn fari af skónum /|_ .-----------------------------------. ,' .\ / | Með léttri lund verður | ,--' _,' | Dagurinn í dag | / / | Enn betri en gærdagurinn | ( -. | `-----------------------------------' | ) | (\_ _/) (`-. '--.) (='.'=) ♖♘♗♕♔♙ `. )----' (")_(") ☃☠ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
