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Interest in J vs ABCL?

It's great to see the reactions of the past days. It's becoming clear
I'm definitely not the only one with interest in ABCL.

However, I didn't see anybody express the any concerns with the fact
that my primary interest is with ABCL. Is there truely that little
interest for J?

The answer to the question above may give some direction on where to
go next with the project.

BTW: I changed the "long project name" from "J" to "ArmedBear / J" and
made the description of the project more about ArmedBear. Somehow,
ABCL feels more of an achievement of this project than J (although
that's an achievement too).

Thanks in advance for any reactions.

Bye,

Erik.

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Mark Evenson | 12 Aug 15:47

Re: Interest in J vs ABCL?

Erik Huelsmann wrote:
> It's great to see the reactions of the past days. It's becoming clear
> I'm definitely not the only one with interest in ABCL.
> 
> However, I didn't see anybody express the any concerns with the fact
> that my primary interest is with ABCL. Is there truely that little
> interest for J?

Every time I have interest in J (i.e. I want to script Java Swing 
elements from ABCL), I end up rolling my own.  But it is real nice to 
have J around to compare my implementation.  I prefer to use the a 
little syntactic sugar like

   (#"registerCallback" object (lambda (arg) (display arg)))

(this syntax was introduced by Alan Ruttenberg with [JSS][1].  I don't 
think this is any fault of J, but introducing a notion of "core" and 
"extension" to ABCL would be very interesting for me, primarily in 
response to my thinking of whether a Java Web Startable ABCL makes sense 
[abcld][2], and then how to meaningfully limit the initial download.

[1]: http://svn.mumble.net:8080/svn/lsw/trunk/jss/

[2]: http://code.google.com/p/abcl-dynamic-install/

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