It has been suggested here that potential users of J are turned off by the symbolic primitives. I find the turnoff to be more specific - the turnoff for me came from the two character primitives - whereas I had been immediately attracted to the one character primitives of APL.
My experience was that those who had a problem with APL primitives mostly had trouble with the Greek primitives, because they had never learned Greek or a language with a similar alphabet. One of the potential advantages this gives to J for teaching is that the Greek is gone. I have looked at developing one symbol alternatives with some richness in meaning to replace J's two character primitives. I hope to soon propose as examples those that I can produce fairly quickly. Don Watson ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
