Re: [Jchat] eli

2013-12-29 Thread Devon McCormick
I'm on tap to give a J talk to a Meetup on 1/21/2014 and second the idea for more "fun" J examples. I'm thinking of re-using the "Newton solver" example I've used before, but it would be nice to have less mathematical examples as well. On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 3:57 PM, Raul Miller wrote: > On S

Re: [Jchat] eli

2013-12-29 Thread Raul Miller
On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 2:38 PM, Björn Helgason wrote: > From the pages about eli " (J is both free and uses ASCII characters but it > is more terse and difficult to learn than APL)." > > I do not share this view but many people do. > > I think it important to get rid of this notion. Maybe? But I

Re: [Jchat] eli

2013-12-29 Thread Björn Helgason
>From the pages about eli " (J is both free and uses ASCII characters but it is more terse and difficult to learn than APL)." I do not share this view but many people do. I think it important to get rid of this notion. Very many people use APL and J to show how you can solve tasks using as few s

Re: [Jchat] eli

2013-12-29 Thread Raul Miller
Yes, apparently it's been around about 10 years? And it looks like vsapl with a q influence. The aspects I like are the compiler and the esql. I am of the opinion that having additional perspectives is nice. Its limiting its base language to something like iso vsapl is also an interesting choice.

Re: [Jchat] eli

2013-12-29 Thread Björn Helgason
Listed as one of the dialects. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_(programming_language) On Dec 29, 2013 2:43 PM, "Raul Miller" wrote: > http://fastarray.appspot.com/default.html > > Looks like J has a new cousin... > > -- > Raul >

Re: [Jchat] eli

2013-12-29 Thread Roger Hui
http://archive.vector.org.uk/art10501180 On 2013-12-29 6:43 AM, "Raul Miller" wrote: > http://fastarray.appspot.com/default.html > > Looks like J has a new cousin... > > -- > Raul > -- > For information about J forums see http://

[Jchat] eli

2013-12-29 Thread Raul Miller
http://fastarray.appspot.com/default.html Looks like J has a new cousin... -- Raul -- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm