On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 9:58 AM, Don Guinn <[email protected]> wrote: > Video screens have removed those restrictions but restrict the > total area of display. We need really big screens. Entry for J is > still stuck with a keyboard which makes it difficult to use the > added flexibility of the screen. Tools like auto completion which > help in other programming languages are of little use in J > as it is so terse.
I see things differently from you. 1) Programs are text, from my point of view. This has important implications for exchanging them with other people. 2) The biggest restrictions I see on entering code as text happen in phones -- there, the keyboards can be tedious to use and the display is small. (That said, we do not have implementations of J for a lot of those phones -- though now that the source code is licensed for our use it might be reasonable to think about porting it into java (Android) or objective C (iPhone).) -- Raul ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
