Dear J enthusiasts, As a newly joint J enthusiast and the programmer that have worked in many environments/technologies I would say J should definitely not mimic python or compete with it directly (of course it could take good bits from it and learn hard lessons there) but focus even more on the niches it could cover.
1. I think terseness, "extended" alphabet and composition rules are very big asset. 2. It would be good to find specialty, demonstrate it, sell it, and focus even more to be the best there. 3. Make sure we have basic building blocks close to perfect (for example, add data structures impl already mentioned, add premium time series or wavelets support). 4. Add very high quality add-ons that will make difference and impact the choice of newcomers (possible candidate areas: serious data mining, graph spectra, wavelets, random matrices, high dim probability, causal inference, ...) 5. Have very high quality books like Fractals, Visualization and J - frankly speaking reading this book was the selling point for me several months ago. 6. Have jobs (there are kdb jobs, why not develop/dispaly very focused cases that could be industrial cases that J is the best in some valuable niches) Cheers, Pawel ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
