To the contrary, although as a long-time user of J who is finding configuration difficult, my point was that newbies will be turned away by some of the daunting aspects of configuration in general and the browser interface in particular.
I'd like to just get to do something productive with J. But getting it installed, with libraries downloaded and updated, getting things configured, and to "just work" is a nightmare of time-frittering. I cannot help but compare how difficult it is to get ready to use such a "small" system as J is, on the one hand, with doing the same for Mathematica, on the other hand. The latter is a far, far larger program (installer now around 1GB!) and a software system of far, far greater complexity. Yet installing it, ready to go, is essentially trivial. (Albeit installing add-on packages from 3rd parties takes just a bit of unzipping to the right location.) On 2/27/2011 11:00 PM, [email protected] wrote: Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2011 22:39:49 -0500 From: Devon McCormick <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Jgeneral] J701: How load packages? To: General forum <[email protected]> ...To emphasize what I said to Mr. Eisenberg, I think J7 is may be easier for newbies but more complicated for those of us with an accumulated "installed base".... -- Murray Eisenberg [email protected] Mathematics & Statistics Dept. Lederle Graduate Research Tower phone 413 549-1020 (H) University of Massachusetts 413 545-2859 (W) 710 North Pleasant Street fax 413 545-1801 Amherst, MA 01003-9305 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
