My idea about that is, we need to appeal to young programmers. The more
experience people have with scalar languages, the less able they are to
learn J. The more experience they have with other languages in a class
with J, the less they need to learn J.
The application needs to be of obvious interest to a non-mathematical,
non-financial user. My target would be a scientist/engineer/IT person
who has a computation to perform and no canned package to do it, so they
have to write a little code.
Henry Rich
On 2/15/2014 12:30 PM, Raul Miller wrote:
Perhaps it is also worth noting that we are not going to impress everyone,
nor should we want to.
J currently caters to some high powered wallstreet types, high quality
engineering types and so on. But it's hardly the only language in use for
any of those categories.
... anyways we should probably think a bit about qualities of the sort of
people we think we want to attract with this video (or videos, since we
might want to attract different kinds of people).
I'd also be tempted to enlist Cathrine Lathwell's advice on video creation
- she has more than a little relevant experience.
Thanks,
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