What has attracted me to APL family is the "promise" of increased programmer productivity. At least in the places I worked, that's the most critical part. Performance issues do come into play from time to time, but the most expensive asset is programmer's time.... I believe that's one of the reason Java and then .NET are so successfully in the business world. After having experience with both C(++) and Java/.NET, in the "managed" languages, the developer is indeed a bit more productive, but not that much more as initially advertised. Yet software industry quickly jumped on the wagon.
On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 12:16 PM, greg heil <[email protected]> wrote: > >Machine speed is important though (so at least does the market for Q say, > and there a microsecond can be worth a $ million). > > >i do liken to interfaces with gpus though. i do think that speed through > the best resources at hand is most likely to be found in such. i am > especially taken by the prospects of the ~chimera_api, donning my > photographer duds. > > ---~ > http://u.tgu.ca/chimera_api > > greg > ~krsnadas.org > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
