You can also run it from your browser in dotnetfiddle: https://dotnetfiddle.net/CnMp2v
Enter commands in the bottom pane (see screenshot at this url) http://pasteboard.co/1NfUUH0V.png On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 9:32 PM, Joe Bogner <[email protected]> wrote: > Good questions - thanks > > On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 8:34 PM, Jon Hough <[email protected]> wrote: >> How many of the primitive verbs / adverbs are you intending to implement? > > Hard to say for sure. At a minimum, I will implement everything > Devon's Minimal J for Beginner's page - > http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/DevonMcCormick/MinimalBeginningJ . > Beyond that, I'll implement as I need things or just to learn J more. > I'll definitely accept pull requests or requests for new primitives > >> Also, will it be able to call .Net functions? e.g. If I want to do something >> with System.Security.Cryptography, I'm wondering if I could call some >> classes and functions in microJ. > > Yes, I plan on implementing some mechanism to interact with .Net. It > will be probably via some new foreign (like cd) > >> Another random thought, it would be interesting to see a version of J that >> compiled to IL (e.g. IronPython etc) or even Java bytecode. Not sure how >> practical that is, but it seems like a huge project. > > I kicked that around in the beginning, but I couldn't find a strong > case for it - or even the benefit. The primitives could be invoked as > compiled code and not interpreted. Down the road, it might be nice to > have a chained interface like jQuery iota(10).reduce(sum) or something > like that which would make it easier to call directly without using > the interpreter. > > > By the way, I also validated it runs fine on mono/linux > > Thanks ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
