With Birth Year from http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Community/Demographics
0 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 110 500 ([,:histogram) 2008 - Birth Year
0 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 110 500
0 0 3 7 10 10 6 1 1 0 0 0
So your assumption seems reasonable.
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R.E. Boss
> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Namens
> Matthew Brand
> Verzonden: woensdag 26 augustus 2009 13:30
> Aan: Chat forum
> Onderwerp: Re: [Jchat] [Jprogramming] The way we think
>
> I wonder what the age distribution of J users is compared to that of
> other languages. I suspect that it is skewed to the wiser age groups.
>
> <20 0
> 20-30 0
> 30-40 1
> 40-50 0
> 50-60 0
> 60-70 0
> >70 0
>
>
> 2009/8/26 Alex Rufon <[email protected]>:
> > I too get the same feeling.
> >
> > I only get support from people not coming in from a programming
> background or doesn't have a .NET programmer as an advisor. I've had
> recommended J to engineering students, some old classmates who's into
> statistics and some teacher friends. The funny thing is, my ward who's
> studying engineering is using it in his pocket pc and my friend who's
> primarily a teacher and taking her PHD actually dropped R and switched to
> J. One notable thing is, both these person never asked me about J again
> after I introduced it to them ... but after a while showed me how they
> were using J in what they do.
> >
> > I even showed them the J mailing list and they didn't sign up. Hehehe.
> >
> > Me and my wife had this discussion for a while now and one of the
> conclusions is that because J is not mainstream. I mean besides us
> dinosaurs in the office, we actually have a high turnover of programmers.
> Particularly with the freeze hiring for permanent positions ... we have a
> lot of contractual over the years and they tend to concentrate on what's
> NEW from Microsoft since they would need that NEW skill for their next
> job.
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
> Behalf Of Matthew Brand
> > Sent: Friday, August 21, 2009 5:24 PM
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: Re: [Jchat] [Jprogramming] The way we think
> >
> > I have found programmers to be extremely hostile to J. I do not know
> > where that comes from. It is very strange.
> >
> > It is like sitting next to a man almost dying of thirst who has only a
> > moist sponge to suck on and you offer him a glass of water, but he
> > says, "no thanks, I will continue to suck on the sponge ... that is
> > what all the others did before they died of thirst, nobody else is
> > drinking water. Besides, I don't want to have to teach the next guy
> > how to drink water from a glass, he will already be trained to suck on
> > sponges."
> >
> >
> > 2009/8/21 Steven Taylor <[email protected]>:
> >> I had to share this. Using J I was recently able to solve an n-
> dimensional
> >> mapping problem using a J array with a shape vector. The solution
> needed 4
> >> operations. Moving this back to the C / C# world the other developer
> >> couldn't see that it was a complete solution. Instead he is now busy
> >> recreating this in an inefficient tree, or as I suggested, if it must
> be
> >> this way, go ahead and use a hash map.
> >> "This isn't the way you do it in .net", he said. "You need references
> and
> >> pointers", he continued. In his own words he wanted to go for a "zero
> >> intelligence solution"... but it seems to me more like, "zero
> intelligence
> >> but how can I use all the fancy new toys to make it more complex". Oh,
> and
> >> substitute "more complex" with "more maintainable" to
> >> be politically correct.
> >>
> >> --Steven
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