Re: [Jprogramming] Asking "Are you still alive?"

2012-01-04 Thread Colin Ward
Try zeromq. This is exactly what it was designed for - "sockets on steroids". . I am currently looking into connecting to this framework using calls to the C api. SHouldnt be too hard. http://www.zeromq.org/bindings:_start On 2 January 2012 18:51, Ian Clark wrote: > Please forgive these qu

[Jprogramming] Advantages of J over Q (aka K4/Kdb+)

2012-01-15 Thread Colin Ward
Hi all, I am trying to choose a specific array language to learn and have narrowed my list down to two - J and Q/kbd. Is there any general accepted wisdoms known by you experienced in either as to the pro's / cons of each. My thoughts so far are: 1) It is for personal/learning use - so i am not

Re: [Jprogramming] Advantages of J over Q (aka K4/Kdb+)

2012-01-17 Thread Colin Ward
Thank you to everyone for your replies. I have taken the advice of the first response and am trying both, starting with q. On tacit programming, i think i have found it is possible in q, and it does have currying. They have default (implicit?) arguments x and y to refer to the first and second

Re: [Jprogramming] Advantages of J over Q (aka K4/Kdb+)

2012-01-17 Thread Colin Ward
so evident > here, but in J you could also write something like (- * +) and execute it > on two variables to multiply their sum and their difference. Q would > require {(x-y) * (x+y)} , which is unwieldy. > > Marshall > > On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 9:14 PM, Colin Ward wrote: &