Chat forum, maybe? Thanks,
-- Raul On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 10:28 AM, 'Dan Baronet' via Programming < [email protected]> wrote: > I don't know if the APL forum is a better place to talk J than the J forum > to talk APL but quickly: > > APL has many variants. Some APLs are J like and no not strand items as in > nouns A B C together. Other APLs (most) do. > Some APLs like Dyalog offer namespaces, something like locales but they > can be nested and be used for a number of things like interfacing with > .Net, COM, GUI, etc. It is also truly Object Oriented (not simulated) > thanks to namespaces again. > > In general the 2 are very similar and immediately the most noticeable > difference is the charater set. Which is fully Unicode in Dyalog's case. > Following is the IDE. Some APL offer rich development environments with > editors, syntax coloring, user friendly debuggers, workspace explorer, etc. > > Language wise many of J features are missing in APL (e.g. almost all the > [letter]. verbs) but Dyalog now has trains (forks and hooks), @, rank, key, > etc. thanks to Roger. One thing it has that J doesn't have is threads. > > > > > On Thursday, July 31, 2014 1:53:42 AM, Jon Hough <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > Although I no zero APL, I understand that J was born from APL with an > ASCII character set and some ideas from Backus' languages. > And I am aware many J programmers are also APL programmers. > So do modern APL dialects provide any functionality not included in J? > For example, or counterexample, I do not think APL has forks and hooks, > Which add a lot of flexibility to J. > The point of the question, being blunt but not wanting to offend anyone, > is there any technical reason one might choose to write a new app in APL > rather than J? > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
