J would work very well in a formulator. I guess a telephone with all the alphabet and signs on it would be preferable to a calculator design.
If you allow nouns to be created as well as nouns there is actually quite a lot could be done using an ordinary telephone with J on it. I guess a telephone with android could be a good platform for J. 2010/11/14 Richard Hill <[email protected]> > Further to the discussion, some may like to look at Neville Holmes' > Essay in IEEE computing... > http://eprints.utas.edu.au/9474/1/Cm09Nv.pdf > " The formulator does to the calculator what the calculator did to the > abacus" > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
