[Jchat] concurrency (async)

2013-07-10 Thread Jack Andrews
On 10 July 2013 02:42, I.T. Daniher wrote in thread "ymacs": > This is perhaps more a petition for better > threading / async support in J in general As Raul said in the ymacs thread, concurrency (async) can be acheived using multiple processes [multiprocessing]. Trendy things like .NET and

Re: [Jchat] concurrency (async)

2013-07-15 Thread Jack Andrews
I don't have time to fully work through an example... But a few points: - Implement your USB i/o handler in your preferred language. Make the handler a server listening on a socket - write your UI in J and send messages to your handler and select() on the socket, async'ly looking for data. Soc

Re: [Jchat] new wiki essay

2014-02-22 Thread Jack Andrews
What's an example of notation that might help concurrent computing? In k, there's peach (parallel each) which seems to be adequate. On Friday, February 21, 2014, Raul Miller wrote: > J is currently an excellent tool for developing those skills, but if any of > us have implemented J as a notatio

Re: [Jchat] Turing Test success marks milestone in computing history

2014-06-09 Thread Jack Andrews
Nice one, Donna. The funniest thing I ever read about the Turing test (well, it wasn't written in terms of that test, but I refer to it as the reverse Turing test)... A hotel wanted to keep up with the competition, so when hotel patrons chose a movie, there were people on roller skates in the base

Re: [Jchat] problems

2014-07-10 Thread Jack Andrews
> Arthur Whitney will be talking about K-OS at the J conference Devon, Anyone, Could you record Arthur's talk for me? Thanks, Jack. On Thursday, July 10, 2014, Devon McCormick wrote: > Arthur Whitney will be talking about K-OS at the J conference. Not to > steal his thunder, but he's got a bar

Re: [Jchat] quickest looping construct

2015-02-05 Thread Jack Andrews
On 5 February 2015 at 05:43, Joe Bogner wrote: > > This could be a combination of TCC's ability to optimize code or it > could be J's algorithm is implemented more efficiently than mine > (probably both) > last time i checked, tcc doesn't bother too much with optimization. that doesn't mean that

Re: [Jchat] missed opportunities

2015-11-04 Thread Jack Andrews
On 4 November 2015 at 07:42, Raul Miller wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 3:15 PM, Wendell P wrote: > > Although at first glance K looks similar to J, it really is not an APL, in my limited exploration of programming languages k clearly inherits some of the remarkable features of APL. it does

Re: [Jchat] html5

2016-09-09 Thread Jack Andrews
>cheap hosting i've been using these guys - "pay for what you use" https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/ On 10 September 2016 at 07:36, Robert Bernecky wrote: > Not exactly free, but these Danish people (who have reliably hosted > www.snakeisland.com for many moons) offer web site hosting > at qui

Re: [Jchat] typescript

2016-12-29 Thread Jack Andrews
"For those who are unfamiliar, TypeScript is a language that brings you all the new features of JavaScript, along with optional static types. This gives you an editing experience that can’t be beat, along with stronger checks against typos and bugs in your code." For those who've used static typed

Re: [Jchat] J algebra

2017-08-08 Thread Jack Andrews
> too complicated for any single person or company to handle jsoftware might disagree. but very few programs built over years of effort are pure > to build a language similar to J as a system of axioms and identities, why not just use J? it allows identities and axioms. On 8 August 2017 at

Re: [Jchat] J algebra

2017-08-09 Thread Jack Andrews
implementations. It is not supposed to include definitions which it would require infinite resources to compute, since we want to create an executable notation. Do you always know if a definition takes finite resources? I don't understand the note about edge cases. There is a problem with most

Re: [Jchat] APL dialects

2018-01-08 Thread Jack Andrews
> superior amusingly, superior's Roman root means over. Inferior means under. I would add k to the list of candidates, but it is influenced by APL and LISP. while also a dialect, it's more of a child of two parents. On 9 Jan 2018 5:52 am, "Dabrowski, Andrew John" wrote: I'm wondering if anyone

Re: [Jchat] Where is J going ?

2018-03-01 Thread Jack Andrews
i'm an outsider to j - coming from k (but i've spent some time with j). how about a simpler j - say "i", which is implemented in j but hides some of the "harder to learn" features. the language could have only adverbs, verbs and nouns and eliminate forks (and conjunctions?). it could also use word

Re: [Jchat] Favorite blog shows global sea level rise per decade isoclines.

2018-03-08 Thread Jack Andrews
it's amazing how real estate trades easily "on sand" - or maybe it's just a local phenomenon. On 8 March 2018 at 14:55, Devon McCormick wrote: > Like Fire Island here: > https://www.google.com/maps/place/Fire+Island,+NY/@40. > 6999706,-73.1614613,11z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x89e81153da534b8f: