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
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