On Tue, Nov 3, 2015, at 12:20 PM, Devon McCormick wrote: > It sounds like what you're saying is that more people (at least those > like > you) would be more attracted to J if there were some large, specific > applications instead of general-purpose tools - is this accurate?
The friction between convenience and performance with array languages has long been an issue. On the one had we have C/C++/Fortran and on the other Matlab/R/Python. Now that machine learning has become a standard tool in business, there is much greater attention to the issue. Witness the quick interest in Julia, despite its not being a particularly good array language. This is partly what prompted me to dabble with K/Q. So, I'm saying that machine learning is an excellent opportunity to bring J to the attention of people who are not language hobbyists but are looking for a better tool to get the job done. Consider what Rails did for Ruby. -- http://www.fastmail.com - Email service worth paying for. Try it for free ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
