About Me
Cheers!
I am a recusant programmer working in the insurance industry. I have lived in seven countries on four continents. Like many software professionals I didn’t start out with a burning ambition to sit in cubicles and keep corporate wheels greased: serious bribes were required.
I would really like to catch the first starship outta here!
John Baker
Saint Louis Missouri.
John
I am actuary working in Melbourne Australia. I have been using J as an tool for my actuarial work. J is not used in Australia by consultants or insurers. I would be be interested to lean if J is used in the US as a tool in the insurance industry.
Any feedback welcome.
I would like to introduce J as a tool for teaching and solving problems in the financial and insurance industry.
Regards
William Szuch
William,
The company I work for MWECC uses APL for a number of actuarial systems. My knowledge of APL is one the big reasons I am here. We don’t use J for any formally supported systems but I use it all the time in my day to day tasks. It’s far easier to incorporate J in shell scripts than APL so I do a lot of test case and code analysis tasks with J. There is no reason J could not replace APL and there would be significant benefits. J does not have semi-globals which in my experience are horribly abused in real world APL programs. Oh, don’t get me started about QuadIO 1!
Thanks for leaving a note.
P.S. is there any chance you will be at the upcoming J conference in Toronto next July?
John Baker
John
Thanks for the comments.
I will try to get to the conference – would love to see Canada.
Are you aware of any actuarial practices or other institutions that use J ?.
William
Cheers John Baker!