On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 10:15 PM, Tracy Harms <[email protected]> wrote: > I've been asked whether I know of "any medium to large open source J > or APL programs". Perhaps the largest available system is on the J > wiki? If not, any information would be an exciting find. If so, > perhaps the JAL (J Application Library) is the largest? Or JDB? Or the > Grid system? Opinions and advice are welcome!
What does "large" mean in the context of a language which supposedly excels at conciseness? "Ill-fitting" perhaps? On a slightly related note, I recently burned several weeks of time investigating a problem which turned out to be the result of an explicit "specification" which was purely technical or mechanical in nature and was not addressed at satisfying any real need. The fix was to get the my co-worker (who had been stuck with the task of implementing that requirement) to go in and remove the line of code that he put in to satisfy that requirement. If your friend wants to see an example of people doing collaborative coding using J, perhaps J's packages would suffice (it's sort of a micro-CPAN system which may or may not be relevant to your friend's issues). -- Raul ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
