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From: sam@gabriel.jpl.nasa.gov (Sam Sirlin)
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Subject: Re: Interfacing J
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Date: 17 Apr 91 22:23:28 GMT
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In article <1991Apr17.202320.13658@math.ufl.edu>, krb@math.ufl.edu (Ken Block) writes:
|> Can J be interfaced to other languages? I would like to do graphics and

One can do graphics directly in J. I translated some old tektronix ploting 
functions I had into J. They work fine (under Xwindows) with minor 
modifications to pop up an Xterm tektronix window. The actual drawing is 
pretty fast (sparc 1), though the calculations seem to take a long time.

-- 
Sam Sirlin
Jet Propulsion Laboratory         sam@kalessin.jpl.nasa.gov