I disagree that the topic is inappropriate. I've used J in my professional work but strictly on a "don't ask-don't tell" basis - they just wanted to see results of analysis.
I've been job-hunting lately and finding it discouragingly much the same as it's always been: you'd better be up-to-date on the current mainstream - mostly Java, some C++, a little C# - if you want to even get a call-back from a headhunter. I'm having very little luck even with more popular but still relatively obscure languages like Matlab and S+. The ongoing push to "de-skill" software engineering continues apace (see Communications of the ACM, Volume 48, Number 11 (2005), Pages 21-24 Practical programmer: The plot to deskill software engineering by Robert L. Glass - also at http://portal.acm.org/ft_gateway.cfm?id=1096020&type=html if you have ACM portal access) or http://fringe.davesource.com/Fringe/Hacking/Philosophy/Hacking_Is_Constructive.html . The trick is to avoid being a labeled "programmer" or you'll be expected to work within the current dysfunctional paradigms. On 5/3/07, Anssi Seppälä <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I have been working with several professional projects since 1998. But this is not relevant topic on this forum. Please find the information from www.jsoftware.com , http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Community/Demographics and http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Stories. Anssi At 20:32 3.5.2007, you wrote: >How many of you out there are using J professionally? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
-- Devon McCormick, CFA ^me^ at acm. org is my preferred e-mail ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
