On Feb 6, 9:08 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Gosi: > > > There are a number of graphics examples, utilities and demos you can > > use in J and combine it with Python. > > Some of those graphic examples are very nice, I have seen a big site > filled with complex fractals, chaotic attractors, etc. > Python Zen seems somewhat opposed to part of the J spirit, that's why > it's not easy to advertise J in this newsgroup. Python is open source, > and it values readability, it belives that it's better to write more > and be more readable/debuggable, than to be able to express many > things with few symbols. APL was an interesting language, powerful > too, and J looks more keyboard-friendly and it's probably better for > other things too. K seems even less readable than J to me. Probably J > has to be compared more to scipy than to Python itself, because they > share some purposes, the vector/matrix processing. If you need to do > lot of array processing the syntax of scipy (with the help of > MatPlotLib too, that's partially copied from MatLab) isn't (may be > not) high-level enough, the system isn't able to simplify things by > itself, etc. So in that situation a more functional language may be > fitter (maybe even F#, but probably there are better languages around > for that purpose, some modern ones coming from ML family). > > Bye, > bearophile
Ken Iverson created APL and it ran first time on a computer 1966. Ken Iverson then corrected several things and made it so different that he could no longer use the name and the results was J around 1990. J can be very short and effective. I like to use J for many things and I think that combining Python and J is a hell of a good mixture. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list