It is always interesting to hear from potential users what has kept them away. There have been some people claiming that lack of open source has been a hindrance. Many of us I know have not understood why that is. Everyone has their own reasons. It is good to hear that you will be investing time and interest in J now that it is open source. It will be interesting to see if there are many more like you joining the crowd.
I was reading a very interesting web page about why the Nokia/windows combination is failing against the competition from android and others that are open source. People are going in for more mobile over from the PC and windows dominance seems to be coming to an end and the open source crowd seem to be winning on the mobile front. Looking at the trend pages seem to indicate this as well. Especially the os/browsers on mobile are windowless. J gong in for HTML5 seems to be a very good timing too. 2012/1/2 Blake McBride <bl...@mcbride.name> > Greetings, > > J has long interested me. APL is a very interesting language but > awkward to use because of its special keyboard and font requirements. > I saw J as a possible solution to these problems (in addition to its > enhancements to the APL model). When I first looked at J (more than > ten years ago I believe) I was fascinated by it but somewhat > intimidated by its new paradigm. Although I was very intrigued by the > language, there is one thing that kept me from investing the effort > into understanding and using J - lack of source code. I was unwilling > to invest my time in a single-source language vendor without source > code. If I made the investment and the company failed, my investment > would be waisted. Now that the source code has been made available > (again, and non-beta), my interest is piqued again and I find myself > much more motivated to learn and use J. > > I would like to thank the owners of J for creating J and having the > courage to release its source code. > > Respectfully, > > Blake McBride > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
