Thanks. In this case, he rejected jqt because of defects in qt.
He was looking for a scripting language with a native interface - in this case, something based on guidelines which https://developer.android.com/design/index.html presents. I'm not sure if he has found anything yet, which he's happy with. Thanks again, -- Raul On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 9:06 PM, Jerrold <[email protected]> wrote: > On 12/9/2014 2:04 PM, Raul Miller wrote: >> >> Is J on android in the play store? I tried searching on "jprogramming" >> and didn't find anything. I tried searching on "j" and found so much >> irrelevant stuff that I didn't look through it all. >> >> The reason I ask is that a friend was asking about programming support >> on the android and I sort of got ignored when I pointed him at the >> download directory. >> >> Thanks, >> > I didn't find it on the play store but directly downloaded it from the j > Software site: http://www.jsoftware.com/ > > Depending upon what your friend wants to do, he might find another language > (such as rfo-basic easier to get into and use. Even though I considered > myself a reasonably adept APL programmer 47 years ago, I found (and still > find) J to be opaque at times to use. It is much more powerful than APL was > but has a much steeper learning/maintenance curve. > > I find that for many jobs rfo-basic is a nice alternative. I have never > been a big Basic fan, but it is a good utility resource with lots of > examples and documentation. > > Hope this helps. > > Jerry Kronenfeld > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
