Interesting topic, but please move this thread to chat. Thanks.
neville holmes wrote: > I have just got the July issue of Computer (computer.org/computer) > and was startled to read an article "In Praise of Scripting" which > entirely ignored APL/J while praising the benefits of its style > as seen in various other coding schemes. > > I think the article can be loaded down through > http://csdl.computer.org/dl/mags/co/2008/07/mco2008070022.pdf > without payment. > > This seems to me to be a good opportunity for getting the > APL/J world some long overdue attention, either by a letter > to the editor or (much better) through a formal article > following on from the above giving some APL history, some > description of APL/J features comparing them to those praised > in the above, and some examples of serious use of APL/J. > > Curiously, I exchanged some emails with Guido van Rossum, > the Belgian originator of Python (which was praised in the > Computer article), quite a few years ago now, and got him > eventually to agree that there was a lot of similarity > between J and Python, though he insisted that he hadn't > known about APL or J when he was developing Python. > > I don't feel competent (being thoroughly retired and out-of-date) > or appropriate (being on the editorial board of Computer and > being notorious for bringing APL/J up in conversations there) > to do this, but I would be happy to help and advise as necessary > anybody volunteering to do this. A quick effort could maybe > get published before the end of the year if it is gone about > in the right way. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
