If I only have 5 minutes then I would try to get across the following points:
- Verbs apply to nouns to produce nouns. - "Everything" is a noun. - Adverbs apply to verbs to produce verbs. The examples would be tailored to the audience. e.g. In NYC I would have a VWAP example. ----- Original Message ----- From: Devon McCormick <[email protected]> Date: Tuesday, November 16, 2010 15:01 Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] Presenting J at the "Language Slapdown" this week To: Programming forum <[email protected]> > This just in (from the organizer of the Slapdown): > > > I have received a large number of cancellations from > presenters in the > last five days. So, instead of 16 languages we are down to 7. > > This small number defeats the purpose of the event, so I am > going to > cancel it. > > Nurts! > > Thanks to all who offered suggestions. It's not a total > waste as I now have > a 5-minute J intro at the ready. > > For those of you with ideas on how to go about this, it might be > worthwhileto put together your own 5-minute intro. I'd > like to see how others > approach this. Especially interesting would be some "live" > demos: I had > planned to assemble a lab to do this before I realized that the > presentations were supposed to be canned. > > I'm sure Raul (see below) is correct about my attempt as I did > skim through > the pages with the graphs in my rehearsals in order to keep > within the time > limit. However, part of my strategy was to give people something > interesting to look back to as this presentation would have been > availableon-line. > > On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 2:04 PM, Raul Miller > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > You will probably see this too late. > > > > In my opinion, you are still trying to present too much > > for five minutes. Those pages are very busy, and > > I think they present too much for a five minute presentation. > > ... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
