This kind of story, essentially a cliché, makes me think that Eric Ries' _The Lean Startup_ may have precious ideas for an APL person or two who miss running big systems, or who want to change the world, all while being able to fit on a tandem bike.
APL jobs I have interviewed for in the recent past have been such that my hiring would have meant a 50-100% staff increase. Talk about making the project late! On 12/18/2011 11:58 AM, Donna Y wrote: > 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 > -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- |\/| Randy A MacDonald | If the string is too tight, it will snap |\\| [email protected]| If it is too loose, it won't play... BSc(Math) UNBF '83 | APL: If you can say it, it's done. Natural Born APL'er | I use Real J Experimental webserver http://142.167.37.108/ (Dynamic IP) ------------------------------------------------<-NTP>----{ gnat }- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
