>                                                    Maybe someone will
> make a similar map of the vocabulary page!

I take it you know about: http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Vocabulary ?


On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 4:28 PM, Linda Alvord <lindaalv...@verizon.net> wrote:
> 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
----------------------------------------------------------------------
For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm

Reply via email to