Calling J from Python

[Gosi]

On Feb 6, 9:08 pm, bearophileH... at lycos.com wrote:
> Gosi:
>
> > There are a number of graphics examples, utilities and demos you can
> > use in J and combine it with Python.
>
> Some of those graphic examples are very nice, I have seen a big site
> filled with complex fractals, chaotic attractors, etc.
> Python Zen seems somewhat opposed to part of the J spirit, that's why
> it's not easy to advertise J in this newsgroup. Python is open source,
> and it values readability, it belives that it's better to write more
> and be more readable/debuggable, than to be able to express many
> things with few symbols. APL was an interesting language, powerful
> too, and J looks more keyboard-friendly and it's probably better for
> other things too. K seems even less readable than J to me. Probably J
> has to be compared more to scipy than to Python itself, because they
> share some purposes, the vector/matrix processing. If you need to do
> lot of array processing the syntax of scipy (with the help of
> MatPlotLib too, that's partially copied from MatLab) isn't (may be
> not) high-level enough, the system isn't able to simplify things by
> itself, etc. So in that situation a more functional language may be
> fitter (maybe even F#, but probably there are better languages around
> for that purpose, some modern ones coming from ML family).
>
> Bye,
> bearophile

Ken Iverson created APL and it ran first time on a computer 1966.
Ken Iverson then corrected several things and made it so different
that he could no longer use the name and the results was J around
1990.

J can be very short and effective.

I like to use J for many things and I think that combining Python and
J is a hell of a good mixture.