[FRIAM] J Home

[Marcus G. Daniels]

Owen Densmore wrote:
> I've been following math software for quite a while, mainly the free  
> or open source packages. [..]
> A somewhat obscure site/package I follow is "J", an APL  
> descendent which takes a symbolic-linguistic approach to math  
> software. 
For scientific programming in the large, this DARPA funded project at 
Sun may be of interest:

   
http://www.experimentalstuff.com/sunr/projects/plrg/PLDITutorialSlides9Jun2006.pdf
> It is very, very terse and has some interesting parsing  
> stunts that promote very concise composition of functions. 
Compare to page 33 of above (the use of Unicode to show math notation)

Marcus