Here's what got me hooked (in no specific order) 1. Multi-platform (linux, osx, windows, android, iPad) 2. Fully featured IDEs (web, desktop, mobile) 3. Open source 4. C interop (means you can literally do anything with the language) 5. Interactive REPL 6. Concise 7. Excellent documentation and essays/articles solving different types of problems 8. "Batteries Included" - large suite of addons that cover many domains of problems 9. Mature - 20 years old, but still being actively developed 10. Community (mailing list, irc, wiki, rosettacode) 11. Scales to big data 12. Simple to start with, challenging to master (you won't get bored with it!)
I think it's hard to distill it down to a single bait, but hopefully these ideas trigger some additional thoughts On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 2:33 PM, Devon McCormick <[email protected]> wrote: > I have an opportunity to talk about J for a short while to some people with > little or no exposure to it. > > What do people think would be the best bait I could use to hook them into > looking more into it? These would be people with coding experience in > other languages. > > -- > > Devon McCormick, CFA > > Quantitative Consultant > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
