I guess you guys know this but the J playground has a bug in iOS Safari in which tapping on a line and pressing enter not only brings the line down but also executes it, rendering it impossible to bring down a line and then edit it before execution.
Please let me know if there is another way to achieve what I want to do! Richard Donovan > On 11 Feb 2022, at 22:26, 'robert therriault' via Programming > <programm...@jsoftware.com> wrote: > > Present: Art Anger, Will Gajate, Raul Miller, Bob Therriault. > > Will updated the progress made on the J playground. It is now up and running > for your consideration. https://wgajate.github.io/jsource/bin/html/emj.html > During the meeting we temporarily switched the font to Courier, which > improved the display of boxed types. Next steps will be to work on the IDE so > that it is closer to the JHS or IDE approach of menus across the top of the > area. A future target will be to enable the foreign conjunctions that may be > necessary in order to include labs in the playground. > > Bob previewed the draft version of the billboard video which was put up on > YouTube just before the meeting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aV936cVrN0I . > It was received well, with Art pointing out that the reference to pipes > linking to the plumber's metaphor might need to be a bit stronger and that > there definitely needs to be a pause and restart option when viewing as there > is a lot of information that would face the newcomer. This functionality is > available if we host with YouTube, but if we choose to host J's servers would > need to have a interface written that allows for that. Raul pointed out that > we should have a link at the end of the video for the resources, but upon > further investigation Bob doesn't meet the requirements to be a Youtube > associate, which means clickable links are not available. In a future > version, Bob will include at least a web address for those who are not > already on the wiki when they are viewing. What is more interesting is the > response that it has got from the wider array programming community. To > begin, even before we finished the meeting YouTube provided this excellent > critical response. > > Brian Rice > Okay this is a good script, and the pacing is also great. I admire J, but > this made me feel more like I could like J. > But I think you should work on your audio, whether it’s microphone choice or > placement, or in audio processing, an audio track with fewer or softer mouth > noises will be less distracting and help people focus more easily on your > message. > > At the time of writing, this has been followed by: > > Programming Siri > Thanks, I love J. More of these please, especially tacit programs > > Rodrigo Girão Serrão > Watching this made me want to quit APL, Python, and all other languages, and > just pick up J (: > > michaelmanti > Brilliant video, Bob. Really shows off what's so attractive about J for > analytical use cases--even those where the data aren't numbers. > > And then it was put up on the APL_farm discord (a forum for APL,K,BQN and J), > where current array programming enthusiasts responded. > > South — Yesterday at 5:24 PM > damn yeah this video rocks. i laughed when i saw how easy it is to plot data > milia — Yesterday at 10:12 PM > What a great teaser ! Great work Bob ! Can we share this already online ? > awagga — Today at 5:02 AM > Totally a great video, I'm almost convinced to switch ;) > rak1507 — Today at 9:18 AM > really nice video love the emphasis on just doing things simply and easily > xash — Today at 11:03 AM > To repeat what other have said: really nice video! Showed it some colleagues > and they are finally interested in J now, my ramblings weren't as effective. > > In any case, we are more interested in the response of users of the forum as > well, but also any non-array programmers who you might know. > > The next topic was the J wiki landing page. I had not done much work on it in > the last week and plan put more attention to it in the coming week. This > brought up a discussion on how to make changes to the wiki while it is still > in use. A bit like constructing an airplane in flight. Art suggested parallel > wikis. Bob wondered if that would be effective, since people tend to stay > with what they know even when the new thing has benefits. This will be a > discussion that continues as we get closer to putting in these changes. > > As always, if any of this is of interest to you, let us know on the general > forum and we can include you in invitations to the next J wiki meeting on > February 17th, 2022. Any comments that you have on the report should also be > addressed to the general forum. > > Previous reports can be found here: > https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Wiki_Development > > Cheers, bob > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
