The so called mainstream was bound to outnumber the APL and by corollary J community because their tools are so much less efficient. For example one financial reporting system that I wrote in a week was attempted to be replaced by purchased software acquired at a cost of more than 1 million dollars, set up by a project team of 15 over the course of a year and after three years of trying to customize reports they were unable to deliver the financial statements that my system continued to deliver promptly.
When I moved APL off the mainframe to SUN workstations, the computer department did not understand that all the overhead they had previously billed to APL users would have to be cut or allocated elsewhere - I suggested getting rid of DB2 but there were 45 people working there to protest. Reuters never was able to create databases as efficient as the ones inherited from IPSA. Donna [email protected] On 2011-12-18, at 10:17 AM, Randy MacDonald wrote: > Also, has Dr Brooks ever commented on the lack of "mainstream" > acceptance of APL? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
