Amit Bolakani asked: > I was considering using J for building a commercial > application which would need to handle huge excel > spread sheets on Windows systems with good > performance. Does J handle this well?
When I think about J and Excel the first thing that comes to mind is the story by John Baker, http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Stories/JohnBaker Here I quote the relevant portion: With onlookers peering over my shoulders, I composed a verb off the top of my head and quickly computed the frequency distribution of over 100,000 integers: too large for EXCEL. The size of the program and the speed of processing (2 seconds on my 66/486 PC) greatly irritated my observers. It seemed like I was cheating. Freqdist=: ~. ,: #/.~ (End quotation.) It seems to me that this story is fairly old, from which we may infer that since then both J's performance and the power of the typical machine have increased significantly. I'll be quite surprised if the answer to your question turns out to be anything but "Yes!" Tracy Harms ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
