Elmer, This is an interesting story, great introduction. Welcome to J community. I hope you will find your experience interesting and productive.
Regarding Opentick, its wire API is primarily focused on real-time tick streaming. If that is what you expect to rely on in J code, then either a native J script would be necessary or possibly the C++ code exposed as flat API to be consumed by J. If on the other hand, you just need the data in more discrete portions, then an external process can be called, which will be responsible to collecting a certain amount of data, similar to how wget is called from Package Manager in JAL. Such process can be a perl script based in the perl implementation. Regards, Oleg Kobchenko --- Elmer Fittery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am 61 years old. I have been working as a software engineer since the > late 60's. I graduated from UCLA. I hope to retire from Northrup > Grumman in the next few years. > > I started my career writing APL at UCLA on a student work program and > then upon graduation, started programming in Z80 and forth. Over the > years, I moved into Unix and C/C++. From the late 60's to now, there > has been a lot of water under the bridge and lots of Operating systems, > languages and projects. > > Recently, I was a little bored writing regression testing in my > companies proprietary language "babalonia" ( I am 1 or 4 people in the > world that knows this language, but I doubt it will improve my > marketability ). Anyhow, I mentioned to a fellow worker that I had done > some APL and thought it was a great language. He said his father had > been a APL programmer prior to his death in a car wreck. We talked > about the character set problem and he said "look at J". My interests > was tweaked. I installed J on my ubuntu linix box at home and on my > Win2000 - running cygwin at work. Then started learning J in my spare > time. Then I found reference to the "Euler Project" and started writing > J code to solve the problems. Then Glen told me about opentick. He > said he didn't use it, but it was interesting. Anyhow, I got the > install package opentick code for Perl, C/C++ and java. This lead to > the thread on J and Opentick. > > What is my motivation? I would say, the whole thing about J-Opentick is > just a sequence of fortunate "it just happened". Also, I have some > ideas about analyzing stock data that I wish to investigate and J will > do just fine once I get over the initial learning curve. > I will post a sample of my J code rendition for > > Historical Open-High-Low-Close Volatility: Yang Zhang > > which is defined at: > > http://www.sitmo.com/eq/417 ____________________________________________________________________________________ Moody friends. Drama queens. Your life? Nope! - their life, your story. Play Sims Stories at Yahoo! Games. http://sims.yahoo.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
