[Jprogramming] sdasync on Linux?

[I.T. Daniher]

> Finally, I should also note that there's other models for interaction
> which can serve this same space.  (trigger/dependencies, and
> functional reactive programming.)

FRP is definitely of interest for this application, but I'm not sure if
it'd be any easier to realize FRP paradigms than async paradigms in J as-is?

On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 10:27 AM, Raul Miller <rauldmiller at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 10:04 AM, Eric Iverson <eric.b.iverson at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > There is no sdasync on platforms other than windows. The facility
> > could be constructed and is a medium to small project. But given that
> > select works, I don't think it is worth the effort. With select you
> > can do quite a bit. That is, a J task can wait on select for events on
> > any number of sockets and process them as desired. One of the sockets
> > that task waits on could be from your user GUI interface task.
>
> I certainly agree that it is not worth your effort.
>
> However, some development styles work better with the sdasync
> mechanism than with the select mechanism. If I might be
> oversimplistic, I'd point out that sdasync can be concise in some
> contexts.
>
> Another perspective here is that this kind of project can serve as
> training for a developer wishing to become comfortable with the J
> implementation.
>
> Finally, I should also note that there's other models for interaction
> which can serve this same space.  (trigger/dependencies, and
> functional reactive programming.)
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Raul
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