Present: Art Anger, Will Gajate, Jon Hough, Devon McCormick, Raul Miller, Bob
Therriault
• Will Gajate reported on the progress that he and Joe Bogner had made
on the J playground. It is now housed on the J Github at
https://github.com/jsoftware/j-playground . Currently, the version of J running
in the browser is J804. Next steps will be to create a more usable interface
for launch at the end of February and then transfer over to the 64 bit version
of J903 (which is estimated to take about a month). This is progress beyond
what had been expected and should prove to be a very useful tool in
popularizing J.
• Bob Therriault ran the first 10 seconds of a keynote video billboard
meant to be an introduction of newcomers to J. Devon suggested changing 'J is
an executable, mathematical notation' to 'J is a programmable, mathematical
notation', as it would have more appeal to computer enthusiasts.
• Devon pointed out that one of the entries on the J page about the
Fibonacci sequence -
https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Essays/Fibonacci_Sequence#Generating_functions
- uses t. for Taylor series coefficients but this is no longer a feature in
modern versions of J. It was suggested someone could come up with a J routine
to replace this or we could simply remove this section as it is one of 10
methods illustrated. On further discussion, probably the best way to handle
this is to put a note on the page that "t." has been discontinued and the
methods in that section would work if someone would write a replacement for
that verb.
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Cheers, bob
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