The APLNext mail chain indicated MS port of APL into VS.NET as one more language compatible to CLR.
This led me to think of an Eclipse integration for J. [Not a new idea per se as I see many posting on the forum that have asked similar questions. If there are clear technical problems, I am not aware of them. So do excuse if this is an old and closed topic. However, it will help if I can get pointers to postings that indicate conclusive positions on this topic. Thanks] Eclipse has a basic platform called EclipseFp that currently supports Haskel and OCaml [1]. Erlang has an integration to Eclipse that is independent of EclipseFp. Advantage? Eclipse is fast establishing itself as a development platform - not only for programming languages but also as business development studio [2]. Many tools are converging onto Eclipse - graphical, source control, modeling, etc. This allows for sharing effort put in by various groups to achieve a better integration to ultimately serve a programmer. I was struck about this point again when I tried the subversion repository for J today. I had the subversion plug-in into eclipse. So all that I needed to do was to set a new remote repository and get the contents. Fast and reliable! My view is that this can be a good strategy to build a stronger community around J. And that can mean a longer lifespan for this amazing language... Taking this thought one step further, there can be two options: a) Try to get on the EclipseFP platform. b) Follow Erlang Strategy of having own integration. When I checked out why this was the case, the response was that EclipseFp has a few utility implementations that were either already implemented in the Erlang plug-in or were simple enough to reimplement with low cost. To start with option (b) might be a good choice so as to reuse many features that J Editor has. Guess the biggest concern would be the C-Java integration part.... Any thoughts here? [1] http://eclipsefp.sourceforge.net/ [2] http://www.sap.com/platform/netweaver/components/developerstudio/index.epx ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
