"I have never seen any context where code in visual studio can be emailed to someone else and "it'll just work"."
It wont. VS is clunky in this regard. The VS team is working at resolving this on a number of fronts, but they're not there yet. That reference was to J code (it'll just work). "J is open-sourced now, so it is a "simple matter of programming" now to implement this idea for an alternative input method and presentation for J." All features are not present in all IDE's. Sure. Jump around. Everyone does. The subtle, but important point worth talking about is the one Devon points out. Take the APL character idea a little beyond intellisense, and state it another way it becomes write in APL and render / compile to J. I'm less comfortable with that. On 9 April 2013 23:27, Raul Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 5:48 PM, Steven Taylor <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm curious to see what Greg cooks up. I am in VS most days, so I'm > bound > > to check it out. > ... > > Do the lessons of html, css, js, jsv, json apply here? It's nice being > > able to send an email with some code, and it'll just work. > > I have never seen any context where code in visual studio can be > emailed to someone else and "it'll just work". Typically, you have to > know how to create the right kind of solution and/or project or > application and then you have to know how to include the code. You > also typically have to know which version of visual studio to use and > you may have to have the right components installed. For people that > run afoul of these issues, you can usually buy support if you can > afford it. > > I've run into problems getting my own code to work, when it was > written with "too old" of a version of visual studio. > > (This might be an example of "if it's not broke, don't fix it" which > is just as valid if we remove the 'not'?) > > Visual Studio can be a nice code authoring system, but it has its own > rules and its community is focussed on paid distribution of compiled > binaries. > > -- > Raul > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
