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.
>
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