Owen, et alii - APL I did my senior project for my undergrad CS minor in APL (30 years ago) ... a 3D scene-graph interpreter for Tek 4013's (with an APL keyboard!)... it was a blast... If the state of interpretive languages in those days hadn't been so abysmal, it might have taken off. I still wax nostalgic when I see an old red APL manual in someone's bookshelf (it dates them quite distinctly). The APL syntax w/o keyboard/special chars was not that bad... a little awkward but not bad... no worse than Excel Macros!
Interactive Data Analysis/Viz I have a new need brewing... In all of my immersive Viz work, I find the need for an interpreted math language to express at run-time a wide variety of math, including complex, advanced statistics on-the-fly. I have considered R for the stats, but still don't like my choices for basic math... While at Berkeley, I was introduced to ROOT which not only provides a wide range of data analysis functions but integrates a C interpreter (seems like a fair way to specify basic functional math on-the-fly... at least if you are a C programmer)... I'll take a look at J. ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
