Hi all, I came across the below article by the way of Hacker News. http://brookeallen.com/pages/archives/1234
I'd like to share a couple of my views about J community. I came across J sometime in 2012 by the way of projecteuler.net. As I learned a little bit of the J language I realized that I was spending (wasting?) a lot of time on minutiae in other languages/environments! I kept at it and now J is my favorite language and I use it almost daily. There are a couple of things very unique about J: the awesome community, and the amount of interesting material that this community has generated. I'm also very impressed with the community's interest in always tying many lessons/insights to its roots. This is unique, at least IMO to J (probably to APL too but I couldn't say since I've not used it). And the more I read about people like Ken Iverson, Ian Sharp, and Eugene McDonnell I'm even more impressed. These guys could not help being geniuses...but they chose to be excellent human beings (Ken Iverson's gesture of dingy bills [mentioned in Beginnings in http://keiapl.org/rhui/remember.htm], Ian Sharp's overall attitude [as listed in http://www.jsoftware.com/papers/IPSA50.htm], and McDonnell's efforts to make J accessible/fun)! I don't think I can find better role models (in programming and real life) to emulate. I don't know why I felt compelled to share this with all of you. I guess, just to tell you that all your work/efforts have impacted me, very positively, and I appreciate it, as I'm sure many others do, very much. Thanks, Vijay. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
