On 9/12/07, Oleg Kobchenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- Roger Hui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > It would be amusing to implement J in JavaScript. > > > > > From: Johannes Laire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > You can't run J in a browser, the only language suitable for > > > that is > > > JavaScript. > > First I thought, hey, that's provocatively brilliant, > why wasn't it thought of earlier. But after a while I remembered > that I was actually discussing such concept called > "J JavaScript Edition" in February 2006. It was looked at > sceptically, but now I can say "If two clever people came > up with the same idea, it can't be wrong."
Funny, I've thought about that as well. And I've seen a similar project before, translating Perl6 to JavaScript. JavaScript is a pretty nice language, I think that implementing at least a subset of J should be very doable. -- Johannes Laire ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
