Thanks for the kind words Skip, I don't want to speak for Eric, but I got the feeling that he was talking about the fact that the core group of J software has not been involved in social media.
You have been active with Quora, Michal Wallace, myself and Conor Hoekstra have a presence with J on Youtube (Michal also on Twitch), Dan Bron, Rik Sherlock and myself answer questions on Stackoverflow and there are probably others who are involved in other areas of which I am unaware. I think that the more significant development was that J is looking to widen the participation in development of the core J engine and may be reaching out on social media to encourage participation. Cheers, bob > On Sep 19, 2021, at 16:46, Skip Cave <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
