Ian Clark <[email protected]> writes:
> Can you please keep notes of your stumbles with the existing
> documentation? Feel free to pm me with them. There will be questions
> you'll have that you simply would not think to ask in a couple of
> months. This does not invalidate them.
I've been playing with J for almost two years now, ever since I switched
jobs and no longer had q/kdb+ available[1], and I still feel like I don't
have a good grasp of how the "system" side of J works.
By that, I mean things like the details of name resolution in
load/require[2], what verbs are defined in _z_, what is available in the
various packages, etc. I just noticed that JForC has more information
on this than I remembered; I don't think I got that far into it the
first time around.
Things that would help would be:
1. Better links to the documentation on packages. It took me a
surprisingly long time to find the "Addons" page on the wiki.
2. Something like R's "Task Views" that give some introduction and
links to relavant packages for various higher-level topics. See
http://cran.r-project.org/web/views/ for examples.
Many descriptions of J focus on its mathematical calculator aspects,
without giving much guidance for how to use it for "real work".
Regards,
Johann
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