You are right, I should make that more attractive, and constrain it more strongly around the idea of expressing computing concepts.
Can you suggest alternate phrasings? I'll do another draft, also (preferably after I sleep on it - the current audience for that page is small enough that I think I can wait that long). Thanks, -- Raul On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 10:13 AM, Michal Wallace <[email protected]>wrote: > Raul : > > Two specific things jump out at me: > > 1. The phrase "people scared of admitting their own ignorance" seems a bit > dismissive and I would suspect rather off-putting to any outsiders who came > to the page hoping to find a reason to try J. > > 2. The phrase "people skilled in the language are in high demand, > especially in financial and engineering communities" is surprising to me. > As a newcomer, the impression I get is that there are approximately zero > open J-related jobs in the world, and a small demand for APL developers > from companies wanting to maintain (or replace) legacy systems. > > I am not the only person who shares this perception. I know at least one J > developer who started learning APL recently specifically because it seemed > like that's where the work is. From what I can tell, most of the people who > hang out in the IRC channel seem to treat J as a fun hobby, either for code > golfing, project Euler, or just a change of pace from the norm. > > If there really is a demand, maybe as a community we could find a better > way to let people know. I for one would love to do some J contract work. :) > > As for the rest of the essay... > > For what audience are you writing this? From the title I was sort of > expecting some reasons to use J, but it mostly seems to be a response to > various criticisms of APL. > > I think the strongest pro-j idea in the piece is this part at the end: > > "My experience has been that if I can't express a computing concept in J > then I do not really understand it. If I can express it in J then it's easy > to translate that knowledge into other languages (like javascript)." > > I suppose if I were an English teacher, I might suggest making that your > thesis and expanding the idea... :) > > -Michal > > On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 8:35 AM, Raul Miller <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > I've a new wiki essay up: http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Essays/WhyJ > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
