On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 3:00 PM, Yike Lu <[email protected]> wrote:
> To reframe the question of the killer app: What common computing problem > does J uniquely solve, or solve uniquely better? Again, I honestly do not > know. I'm actively trying to come up with reasons to slip it into my daily > routine (which is about 95% Python), and I keep failing. I would have to > spend probably a month or two of off-hours development to get my small > j-table project up to par with Python's pandas in just the simple stuff. Right now, the language does not really "do" anything better. A person working in the language can accomplish incredible things, but the days are long gone when you can do that without reaching for any outside tools. (And, for example, we should have ways of calling J from Python and Python from J - documented and working ways, for perhaps most of the few flavors of J and many flavors of Python.) It's also that understanding and working with the language makes you a better programmer in whatever other languages you deal with. That said, we *could* be doing things better. And our community has plenty of the experiences and background to make the language and its environment really shine. But I need to be doing some of those things myself, so I should shut up and get back to work. For now. Thanks, -- Raul ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
