[Jprogramming] J on Jupyter progress

[Pascal Jasmin]

to run on windows,

wrapper.py lines to change are:

binpath = "D:/j64-804/bin"
self.libj = get_libj(binpath + "/j.dll")

kernel.json change:

'python3' to 'python'

if installing python through anaconda, here is my path for putting the kernel files,

D:\Users\Pascal\Anaconda3\share\jupyter\kernels\jkernel

'jupyter notebook' command should be run from that folder.
load 'viewmat' or 'plot' has problems that I don't know if J related.  Other load commands seem to work, and this issue doesn't happen on linux.

> This application failed to start because it could not find or load the Qt platform plugin "windows".



----- Original Message -----
From: Dan Bron <j at bron.us>
To: J Programming <programming at jsoftware.com>
Sent: Monday, February 8, 2016 5:50 PM
Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] J on Jupyter progress

Pascal wrote:
> Its easy to publish the results of an interactive session though.  github will preview them for example.
> 
> 
> https://github.com/adrian17/jkernel/blob/master/sample_edge_detect.ipynb
> 

After seeing this preview, I am *really* excited to see the final product here. I think being able to not only use J online but publish results from a notebook as documentation will be a killer app. It will really advance the foundational goal of communicating *with* J (as opposed to talking *about* J, or using J as a means to an end); I personally think this objective has been neglected in recent years.

Note the similarity of that notebook preview to the original J labs (which were, of course, limited to ASCII).  I can really see using this to answer someone on StackExchange, or someone asking you about the statistics of the presidential race, anything else where a bit of calculation is required. 

The big difference is because you can intersperse prose, media, and code freely, you can use J as no more than background, implementation details, scaffolding. Just use it to exhibit whatever you want to exhibit, without drawing attention to it as a notation. Which is exactly what a notation is supposed to do, and exactly the way to advertise a language which aspires to be “executable mathematical notation”. 

In other words: a way to sell J, without having to sell J (which, just like any other sale, makes people play devil’s advocate at least initially, purely as a self-defense mechanism).

-Dan

PS:  Having said all that, I personally have not done much to advance the cause of J in recent years. The problem with J is that it’s such a fun toy that it becomes a serious time sink.





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