The install package for J is 6 MB - bloated like Kate Moss. On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 10:50 PM, bill lam <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, 09 Feb 2009, Raul Miller wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 9:03 PM, bill lam <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Mon, 09 Feb 2009, Devon McCormick wrote: > > >> Why not install J and run your scripts as you would do with many other > > >> packages? > > > > > > Current J package is bloated if intended for runtime support. Many > > > other packages divide it into 3 separated packages: runtime, > > > documentation and development. > > > > This might be true in a relative sense, but I do not think that > > this is valid in an absolute sense. > > > > J is a tiny fraction of the size of even the oldest versions of > > the .Net framework runtime, for example. > > Very true. However everything is tiny compared to .net or java; > Everything is bloated compared with k/q. A more relevant question is > why should those extra J html documentation and J IDE scripts be > interested to non-programmer end users. > > -- > regards, > ==================================================== > GPG key 1024D/4434BAB3 2008-08-24 > gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 4434BAB3 > 唐詩288 朱慶餘 近試上張水部 > 洞房昨夜停紅燭 待曉堂前拜舅姑 妝罷低聲問夫婿 畫眉深淺入時無 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > -- Devon McCormick, CFA ^me^ at acm. org is my preferred e-mail ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
