On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 6:02 AM, Devon McCormick <[email protected]> wrote: > Ken - >
Nice presentation! > I think everyone was a bit worn out by the end - I went on for an hour and a > half - so there were really only a few questions. > > One person wanted to know about the "area of application" for J and I told > him "analytics" but now think this was too narrow - I should have mentioned > how I use it every day for many different tasks where I might be using perl > or shell-scripting otherwise. > I had done an introductory presentation of which point was on "daily J programming" using J as an extension to the brain. http://jsoftware.com/pipermail/programming/2009-December/017260.html Recently, I resumed "Thursday Quiz" for Korean J community mailing list. I provide a daily J programming problem(which is authentic) every Thursday. > Someone else wanted to know about string handling even though I'd tried to > emphasize the point that character and numeric arrays are treated the same > way (as appropriate to the verb being applied). To some people, numerical computation and handling isn't too attractive. They are more interested in string manipulation. > > I missed my chance to hold up the book Ken had brought, too. I should have > thought of that as you were headed out. > > Thanks for coming by, > > Devon > > On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 4:30 PM, Lettow, Kenneth <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Seconded. >> >> I was in attendance, the crowd was small but engaged. I watched a lot of >> heads nodding in agreement as Devon went through the examples. >> >> I had to leave a bit early, so I missed the Q&A. How did that go Devon? >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] >> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John Baker >> Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2011 4:17 PM >> To: Programming forum >> Cc: Devon McCormick >> Subject: [Jprogramming] Shout out for Devon's Latest Wiki Posting >> >> If anyone here hasn't take a few moments to read Devon's recent J WikI >> posting please do so. It's a great introduction to J. I particularly >> like >> his graphic. >> >> Take a gander: >> >> http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/DevonMcCormick/FunctionalJ >> >> -- >> John D. Baker >> [email protected] >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >> > > > > -- > Devon McCormick, CFA > ^me^ at acm. > org is my > preferred e-mail > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
