On 9/17/07, Terrence Brannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And I wonder why there is an APL conference when Ken Iverson himself > admitted that J was an improvement over APL. Is APL better in certain > ways?
J is a dialect of APL -- but its introduction did not mean that everyone already using APL could switch (or wanted to -- but "could" plays a huge part). Let's say I am running an APL application on some ancient out of date VM/CMS mainframe clone, and I'm paying for system support on an incident by incident basis where if my system ever fails I probably lose a big chunk of my customer base -- what does J offer me? -- Raul ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
