Perhaps it is also worth noting that we are not going to impress everyone, nor should we want to.
J currently caters to some high powered wallstreet types, high quality engineering types and so on. But it's hardly the only language in use for any of those categories. ... anyways we should probably think a bit about qualities of the sort of people we think we want to attract with this video (or videos, since we might want to attract different kinds of people). I'd also be tempted to enlist Cathrine Lathwell's advice on video creation - she has more than a little relevant experience. Thanks, -- Raul On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 12:21 PM, Murray Eisenberg <mur...@math.umass.edu>wrote: > The first of those two is nicely done. > > However -- and here I play a Devil's advocate -- is the example all that > impressive? Yes, the function "leap" he defines is fairly terse. But even > terser, in a certain language I also use, is the pre-defined function: > > LeapYearQ > > Moreover, while that Kona demo clearly builds on the methods used to > define a factorial function so as to build the leap function, isn't it a > bit off-putting for many programmers so have to worry about defining a > factorial function. I don't know whether Kona has such a function built in, > but J certainly does. The issue here is what level programming one is > trying to do, of course. > > On 15 Feb 2014 08:13:10 -0500, Joe Bogner <joebog...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I think the ultimate 5 minute experience is a combination of: > > > > 1. Video > > > > - Here is Kona's intro: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmiq47E5N-w and > > - Here is a Kona's "wow" factor: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBXsCeW9qfc(we could do the same with > > the latest websockets implementation fairly > > easily I think) . . . > > —— > Murray Eisenberg mur...@math.umass.edu > Mathematics & Statistics Dept. > Lederle Graduate Research Tower phone 240 246-7240 (H) > University of Massachusetts > 710 North Pleasant Street > Amherst, MA 01003-9305 > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
