hi Robert, > But I've been asked to recreate an APL based system in Java and I'm
may i ask why the rewrite to java? has the 'one guy' who developed it retired? > trying to understand APL's benefits and found J as part of my research. > J seems a little more viable and possibly "better" then APL but I'm not > knowledgeable enough to know. if you want to learn an APL language, j is probably the best way to go. it's 'free', it's ASCII and it's got lots of documentation and tutorials and a very helpful community. > My questions are... > > Can APL be converted to J? and what are the options for doing that?. > Is this required, beneficial, etc.? > If there's any hope of using some of the existing code, I'd want to call > J/APL from Java and get back > the results or have it update the data directly. ok, i don't think j is going to help with your immediate problem. j is the right answer, but for a different question. you need to identify the dialect of APL that is running your app and ask the java question of the community that supports it. all the best, jack ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
