Mentioning the various sizes is good. i.e. The interpreter itself is very small but you do get a substantial amount of useful stuff in addons.
----- Original Message ----- From: Devon McCormick <[email protected]> Date: Sunday, November 14, 2010 7:44 Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] Presenting J at the "Language Slapdown" this week To: Programming forum <[email protected]> > Thanks for the feedback. I do have in my presentation > notes that the entire > vocabulary fits on one page - I meant to emphasize that what I > show is a > sample, so I should mention the size of the "population". > > When I'm talking about "compact", I was thinking of writing a > Newton solver > in one line but it wouldn't hurt to mention the small size of the > interpreter + libraries as well. I estimate this as > about 2.7MB for the > interpreters and dlls plus about 22MB for the addons, as well as about > 17.5MB for the system, tools, help, and icons directories for a > total of > 42.5MB - still svelte by modern standards: > > +/ 2723080 22323739 NB. bin/j.exe, jconsole, > jnative, jee, j.dll, j.jar > + addons > 25046819 > +/ 6926980 856946 9184784 573168 NB. j602/system, > tools, help, bin/icons > 17541878 > +/ 25046819 17541878 > 42588697 > > I'll see if I can wedge in a few more elementary examples though > I have less > than 50 seconds per slide. > > Good catch with the missing negative sign - another cut-and- > paste "droppo". > > I'll post an updated version in an hour or so. > > > On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 2:48 AM, Bo Jacoby > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi Devon > > > > That is a very nice presentation! > > > > Minor details: > > > > You provide 3 lines of the vocabulary of J on page 2. Why not > tell that the > > COMPLETE vocabulary is only 41 lines? To me the short language > definition is > > an important quality of J. > > > > It is also very nice that J is accessible without charge. > > > > You do write the word "compact", but not HOW compact. (192 > KB). The > > compactness contributes to reliability. > > > > Elementary examples makes the audience feel comfortable: > > 3+3 > > 6 > > 3*3 > > 9 > > 3-3 > > 0 > > 3%3 > > 1 > > 3^3 > > 27 > > 27^%3 > > 3 > > > > The advanced stuff is impressiv but not comprehensible to non-J'ers. > > > > I miss a negative sign "_" in the Newton iteration "close to zero > > difference" e_16. > > > > Good luck! > > > > Bo > > > > > > --- Den søn 14/11/10 skrev Devon McCormick <[email protected]>: > > > > > Fra: Devon McCormick <[email protected]> > > > Emne: [Jprogramming] Presenting J at the "Language Slapdown" > this week > > > Til: "J-programming forum" <[email protected]> > > > Dato: søndag 14. november 2010 07.29 > > > Hi All - > > > > > > I've put up a PDF - > > > http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/DevonMcCormick/LanguageSlapdown > > > - of what I'm > > > going to present at the Language Slapdown ( > > > http://www.meetup.com/Language-Slapdown/) > > > on Wednesday. Please feel free to > > > take a look and comment. Thanks to everyone in NYCJUG > > > who gave me help with > > > this. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
