If he can afford forking some money, basic4android may be a good candidate for him.
Сб, 13 дек 2014, Raul Miller написал(а): > 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 -- regards, ==================================================== GPG key 1024D/4434BAB3 2008-08-24 gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 4434BAB3 gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --armor --export 4434BAB3 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
