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From: neitzel@ips.cs.tu-bs.de (Martin Neitzel)
Subject: wanted:  Foils for a J intro
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Sender: neitzel@ips.cs.tu-bs.de (Martin Neitzel)
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Organization: Inst. f. Informatik, TU Braunschweig, FRG
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 14:59:51 GMT
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I could take an occasion in the next days to offer a talk about J to
some folks here.  These people are typically engineers or chemists
doing some scientific computing in Fortran on a 3090 vector processor
mainframe.  (And are just coming into contact with powerful networked
workstations.)

If somebody has already outlined some luring foils for such occasions
and would be so kind to share them, I would appreciate that very much.
Suggestions / sketches are fine since I'll have to do the translation
and typesetting anyways.  Material doing this for APL is just as well.

Here's a tentative topic list, comments are welcome.

						Martin Neitzel

* J. Backus' opinion about traditional languages, one-at-a-time
  computing and APL out of his famous Turing award lecture.
* Suggestive examples in concrete J.
* J as a high-level language and its benefits for an underlying vector
  processor architecture.
* More examples.
* J as a portable language, utilising the entire spectrum of available
  develepment environments.

Btw, is anybody actively working on J implementations tailored to
vector processors?
