@vore omni The market for J is very very small. If there was a substantial market, J would be everywhere and JSoftware would sail along with a wind astern.
The current implementation is very usable. Why not solve problems using it? Our community is too small. Find partners and use it. @Raul Why Haskell? @Devon Why Fortran? !! ~ Gilles ---------- Original Message ----------- From: Raul Miller <[email protected]> To: Chat forum <[email protected]> Sent: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 11:19:12 -0400 Subject: Re: [Jchat] just another j interpreter > On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 9:42 AM, Devon McCormick > <[email protected]> wrote: > > are there particular advantages to your version that the existing one > > does not have? For instance, would it improve execution speed > > substantially? (I would guess this is unlikely - I'm waiting for the > > Fortran implementation.) Would it make the interpreter more portable? > > Would it help allow J to be more integrated into conventional > > environments? > > Speed probably depends on application and context. You can compare > two programs solving the same kind of problem and each can be faster > than the other for different instances of that problem. > > -- > Raul > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ------- End of Original Message ------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
