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I know what you mean, but what is interesting is that serious, new vs. old work, does not always correlate with a nice front end, or how it looks. Although, I h

by eggy 10y ago

I know what you mean, but what is interesting is that serious, new vs. old work, does not always correlate with a nice front end, or how it looks. Although, I have been following PicoLisp for years, and the site was just redone to look more modern. Didn't matter, since PicoLisp stands on its own for people who are interested in such a thing. The mailing list is direct and archived on at least two mail archival sites [1]. I also like J [2], and the Google Group gets less traffic than the individual direct email lists. As long as I can communicate, and stay current, I really don't care if the site looks good, as long as it is easy to navigate with old styling. [1] http://picolisp.com/wiki/?home http://picolisp.com/wiki/?home [2] jsoftware.com

tluyben2 10y ago
I follow picolisp and J as well and I would consider them niches which have their fans and get referred by fans to newcomers. Both are great projects by the way.
- eggy 10y ago
  Not sure what the relationship between niches and website appearance is here. I only care about quality, not quantity or popularity when selecting my tools for a task. There are people doing real work with both J and PicoLisp. Look at KDB+/Q. It is a highly effective time series database/language that is used by some of the largest companies, but could be called niche, yet the kx.com site is modern, but look at kxparc.com which is Arthur Whitney's site. He created A+, K and Q, and inspired J, yet the site is basically plain text and minimal, the beginnings of a desktop and server OS in K, KOS. BTW, J has Jd, a time series dbase with J as the built-in language of you're interested in that sort of stuff. I am more a "function over form" kind of guy, although I understand the importance of appearance and human interface designs.

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I know what you mean, but what is interesting is that serious, new vs. old work, does not always correlate with a nice front end, or how it looks. Although, I h

by eggy 10y ago

tluyben2 10y ago
I follow picolisp and J as well and I would consider them niches which have their fans and get referred by fans to newcomers. Both are great projects by the way.
- eggy 10y ago
  Not sure what the relationship between niches and website appearance is here. I only care about quality, not quantity or popularity when selecting my tools for a task. There are people doing real work with both J and PicoLisp. Look at KDB+/Q. It is a highly effective time series database/language that is used by some of the largest companies, but could be called niche, yet the kx.com site is modern, but look at kxparc.com which is Arthur Whitney's site. He created A+, K and Q, and inspired J, yet the site is basically plain text and minimal, the beginnings of a desktop and server OS in K, KOS. BTW, J has Jd, a time series dbase with J as the built-in language of you're interested in that sort of stuff. I am more a "function over form" kind of guy, although I understand the importance of appearance and human interface designs.