[Jprogramming] Thanks for the source to J

[Linda Alvord]

What a beautiful map of the internal landscape of J.  Maybe someone will
make a similar map of the vocabulary page!  

Linda

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[mailto:programming-bounces at jsoftware.com] On Behalf Of David Mitchell
Sent: Monday, January 02, 2012 8:37 AM
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Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] Thanks for the source to J

Blake, I also appreciate the J folks having made the source available.

Here is a jwiki page posting an image of the Mind Map I use for working with
the 
J source code.  Perhaps you will find it interesting.

http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Source/Windows%20Mind%20Map%20of%20Source%20I
nformation

All the best,
--
David Mitchell

On 1/2/2012 6:29, Blake McBride wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> J has long interested me.  APL is a very interesting language but
> awkward to use because of its special keyboard and font requirements.
> I saw J as a possible solution to these problems (in addition to its
> enhancements to the APL model).  When I first looked at J (more than
> ten years ago I believe) I was fascinated by it but somewhat
> intimidated by its new paradigm.  Although I was very intrigued by the
> language, there is one thing that kept me from investing the effort
> into understanding and using J - lack of source code.  I was unwilling
> to invest my time in a single-source language vendor without source
> code.  If I made the investment and the company failed, my investment
> would be waisted.  Now that the source code has been made available
> (again, and non-beta), my interest is piqued again and I find myself
> much more motivated to learn and use J.
>
> I would like to thank the owners of J for creating J and having the
> courage to release its source code.
>
> Respectfully,
>
> Blake McBride
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