I wouldn't recognize a code manager if it bit me on
the nose <grin> but I do remember having access to a
function cross referencing system in an old APL system that
really helped me. On several occasions Martin Neitzel has
made available his J Workbench which supposedly includes
such cross referencing but I never could get it to work and
had great difficulty extracting from his cvs system. It is
also my understanding that JAR is not available to
non-windows J's. So I do not have access to a cross
referencing system for either explicit or tacit J code.
Could a generic code manager provide a cross
referencing feature? If not, does anyone have one or has
anyone got the J Workbench working in a way that a Mac
user (me) could use it? Or is such a feature native in J and
I have just overlooked it?
Thank you,
(B=)
On Fri, 16 Jun 2006, dly wrote:
+ I have used lots of code managers but fondly remember some
+ functionality of Logos quite apart from handling APL characters. But
+ its fine that there is no need for a custom code manager for J.
+ Donna
+ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
+
+
+
+ On 16-Jun-06, at 8:48 PM, Chris Burke wrote:
+
+ > Oleg Kobchenko wrote:
+ >> There is a system formerly called JOD for J Object Dictionary
+ >> (formerly JAR) by John Baker.
+ >> http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Packages/JAR
+ >> I don't know if it does versioning though.
+ >>
+ >> Mention of Logos is only available on the web at
+ >> http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=22008.22054
+ >> which means that it's closed for the general public.
+ >>
+ >> That is the fate of most of invaluable APL material:
+ >> corporations and interest groups are just sitting
+ >> on it and it gradually vanishes into the oblivion.
+ >> (Another example "SHARP APL Technical Notes").
+ >
+ > This may be true of APL material in general, but Logos and other APL
+ > source code managers are a special case. They were required for APL
+ > because of its non-standard character set and storage of source
+ > code in
+ > an internal binary format. As a result, much APL effort was devoted to
+ > writing custom built source code managers.
+ >
+ > They are simply not needed for J, where normal source code managers
+ > work
+ > fine.
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