On 8 Mar 2013 08:04:27 -0500, Dan Bron <[email protected]> wrote: > … To be clear: I think QJIDE is very neat (I installed it yesterday - it's > about the 5th piece of software I've put on my new laptop) and I'm glad to > have it. Like Martin, I'm a bit of a desktop-app dinosaur and am feeling the > urge to update my skills and mindset and move to the webapp world. J is one > of the few desktop apps I have left. QJIDE might help me shed that last > addiction (I prefer its visual layout to JHS'; it makes the workflow more > familiar to me, and will soften the learning curve). Time will tell of I can > actually get off desktop-J, but in any case I'm glad to have QJIDE. > > The source code discussion I started was simply misplaced in this thread; > Murray's post just gave me an unexpected opportunity to raise an issue that's > been bothering me for a while. As Martin notes below, and Chris explicitly > told us, the sole motivation behind the last two versions of J has been to > get the user base onto a new frontend.
And as I understand things, the motivation behind getting J onto a new front end is not any alleged advantages of a browser interface per se, but rather a way to avoid maintenance of separate front ends for different hardware/OS platforms -- thereby minimizing development costs. --- Murray Eisenberg [email protected] Mathematics & Statistics Dept. Lederle Graduate Research Tower phone 413 549-1020 (H) University of Massachusetts 413 545-2838 (W) 710 North Pleasant Street fax 413 545-1801 Amherst, MA 01003-9305 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
