What a beautiful map of the internal landscape of J. Maybe someone will make a similar map of the vocabulary page!
Linda -----Original Message----- From: programming-boun...@jsoftware.com [mailto:programming-boun...@jsoftware.com] On Behalf Of David Mitchell Sent: Monday, January 02, 2012 8:37 AM To: Programming forum Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] Thanks for the source to J Blake, I also appreciate the J folks having made the source available. Here is a jwiki page posting an image of the Mind Map I use for working with the J source code. Perhaps you will find it interesting. http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Source/Windows%20Mind%20Map%20of%20Source%20I nformation All the best, -- David Mitchell On 1/2/2012 6:29, Blake McBride wrote: > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
