Oops, I accidentally trimmed my footnotes. Johann Hibschman <[email protected]> writes:
> 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 [1] I had been at Morgan Stanley for a while, where I got to deal with the lingering remnants of A+ and be impressed by how nice kdb+ was at dealing with large sets of mortgage data. [2] By this I mean understanding what exactly (require 'stats') does, compared to (require 'stats/base') or (require '~addons/stats/base/base.ijs'). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
