I listened to the Array Cast podcast yesterday, where Eric Iverson talked about his life & career growing up with Ken and developing J. I felt it was one of the best ArrayCasts so far. In the cast, Eric mentioned that he was not very familiar with social media, and he said this was "the first time ever that J has been on social media".
I have to admit I was surprised at this. I have been using J to show people how to solve their problems on Quora <https://www.quora.com/> for over 4 years. Quora is a social media site where people can post questions, and others can post answers to those questions for all to see. I have posted over 6,000 answers to all kinds of math & statistics problems on that site, mostly using the J language. I started doing this just to polish my J skills, but I have found that my solutions also elicit interest in the J language, mainly because most of the solutions are one liners, while other solutions in Python or other languages took many lines, with lots of looping. There have now been over 1.8 million views of my solutions, 1,800 comments, and 53 J solutions to problems that have been shared out to other social media platforms. I do occasionally post answers to non-programming issues, but that is fairly rare. At the beginning of each math-oriented solution I post, I try to always put a link to either J Software or to the Wikipedia article on J (which has a link to J Software). I believe that this is a good way to promote J, which I use in my electrical engineering work. Besides J practice, my motivation today is to boost support of the J language, to help keep it current, and to increase its usage. Skip Skip Cave Cave Consulting LLC ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
