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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
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