With the ubiquity of modern standards-compliant JavaScript-enabled web browsers, many languages can now be compiled to JavaScript (see list below), to allow the programmer to develop in his or her preferred language "X" and then automatically compile to JavaScript.
Does (or could) J take a similar approach, now that J701 is targeting the browser as its default front end? Java-to-JavaScript http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/ http://www.xml11.org/ C#-to-JavaScript http://jsc.sourceforge.net/ <-- many good on-line demos here http://projects.nikhilk.net/ScriptSharp Lisp-to-JavaScript http://web.archive.org/web/20051202150017/http://www.cryptopunk.com/?p=8 http://lispscript.sourceforge.net/ http://github.com/manuel/cyberlisp Scheme-to-JavaScript http://www-sop.inria.fr/mimosa/scheme2js/ http://schani.wordpress.com/2010/01/01/jscreme/ http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/schani/blog/jscreme.html Haskell-to-JavaScript http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Yhc/Javascript/Programmers_guide OCaml-to-JavaScript http://code.google.com/p/ocamljs/ Smalltalk-to-JavaScript http://www.squeaksource.com/ST2JS/ http://clamato.net/ Python-to-JavaScript http://pyjs.org/ http://code.google.com/p/pyjamas/ Perl-to-JavaScript http://pugs.blogs.com/pugs/ F#-to-JavaScript http://fswebtools.codeplex.com/Wikipage CoffeeScript-to-JavaScript http://www.rubyinside.com/coffeescript-a-new-language-with-a-pure-ruby-compiler-2921.html see also: http://www.infoq.com/news/2009/09/javascript-compilation-target On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 6:37 PM, Eric Iverson <[email protected]>wrote: > The official J701 beta program starts now. > > See the beta page at the http://www.jsoftware.com > (Systems > Download and then on the right Other Versions > Beta) > > This announcement to programming, but all discussion should take place in > the beta forum. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
