On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 7:29 PM, neville holmes<[email protected]> wrote: > By a strange coincidence, just after sending my > item of this title off to this forum I went to > the July/August issue of Computing in Science > and Engineering that had just arrived here in > the post. The front cover identified an article > entitled "Functional Programming" on p.86. > > In fact it was a five page article in a regular > column called "Scientific Programming" and it > was entitled "The Promises of Functional > Programming". It mentioned Fortress, F#, > Mathematica, FFTW, OCaml, SISAL, Clojure, Lisp, > Standard ML, Haskell, Scala, and Nemerle. > > Nowhere is APL or J or any other dialect of APL > mentioned, unless you consider Mathematica to > be such a dialect.
As near as I can tell, this article was written by Konrad Hinsen whose primary interest seems to be molecular modeling. I imagine, if significant molecular modeling tools had been available in J, he would have been aware of the language. FYI, -- Raul ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
