On Mon, 09 Feb 2009, Raul Miller wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 9:03 PM, bill lam <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Mon, 09 Feb 2009, Devon McCormick wrote:
> >> Why not install J and run your scripts as you would do with many other
> >> packages?
> >
> > Current J package is bloated if intended for runtime support. Many
> > other packages divide it into 3 separated packages: runtime,
> > documentation and development.
>
> This might be true in a relative sense, but I do not think that
> this is valid in an absolute sense.
>
> J is a tiny fraction of the size of even the oldest versions of
> the .Net framework runtime, for example.
Very true. However everything is tiny compared to .net or java;
Everything is bloated compared with k/q. A more relevant question is
why should those extra J html documentation and J IDE scripts be
interested to non-programmer end users.
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