== Report of Meeting 2023-08-10 == Present: Art Anger, Ed Gottsman, and Bob Therriault
Full transcripts of this meeting are now available on the its wiki page. https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Wiki/Report_of_Meeting_2023-08-10 1) Ed presented the issues that he was having incorporating Live Search into AWS because successive uses of curl are completed sequentially, which slows down the refinement of the search as characters are added by the user. 2) Bob and Ed further discussed whether curl might be used to keep a version of the wiki stored locally on the user's machine up to date from AWS with the Live Search referencing this local repository. 3) Bob talked about the wiki being an educational tool. This requires further categorization before it is sufficiently advanced to allow more effective participation. Ed posited that search is an aspect of categorization in the sense that search automatically categorizes to present its results. Ed feels most of his work is more presentation. 4) Ed felt that there is a predisposition in the J community towards math rather than as a general purpose language. The direction of the wiki as an education tool seems to reinforce math uses within the J community. Bob mentioned combinators and the fact that the language can use those effectively beyond math. The standard library is an example of the general purpose programming language in practice and that way of using J could be a better bridge to general programmers. Ed feels that this is a missed opportunity as he finds J a really good general purpose programming environment. For access to previous meeting reports https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Wiki_Development If you would like to participate in the development of the J wiki please contact us on the general forum and we will get you an invitation to the next J wiki meeting held on Thursdays at 23:00 (UTC) Next meeting is August 17th, 2023. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
