Thanks for replying. I have checked out Dyalog's website and another company called MicroAPL (IIRC).That was actually what spawned my question (point taken, maybe wrong forum).It seems there are some companies doing a lot with APL variants, and what my question was edging towards was why haven't these guys switched to J, legacy code maintenance aside? (I tried to phrase it more diplomatically, for fear of being labeled a troll).
> From: [email protected] > Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2014 01:57:01 -0400 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] J and APL > > This is probably the wrong forum for this conversation, so I'll just > recommend you spend a few minutes over at http://dyalog.com/ > > Thanks, > > -- > Raul > > > > On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 1:53 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
