"Fortran" was as kind of a joke - though it's still a dominant force in high-speed numerical calculations.
On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 5:21 PM, Gilles Kirouac <[email protected]> wrote: > @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 -- Devon McCormick, CFA ^me^ at acm. org is my preferred e-mail ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
