What is the basis of your claim that the readability of J is changing? How do you measure change in readability?
Thanks, -- Raul On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 5:03 PM, Erling Hellenäs <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all! > The sharing of programs happened after a week or something I think. Likewise > the search in forums. J Software was very responsive to ideas at the time, > it seems. J as open source took more time, but happened some years later. > It's a very big change, of course. > I have been fighting hard for readability and writeability since I started > posting in these forums, apparently without any reaction whatsoever. J is > getting less and less readable and people care less and less about if their > code and their posts can be read and understood. Minimizing the number of > written characters is the only thing that counts. The time it takes to get a > solution down to the minimum amount of characters and how difficult it then > is to read is nothing anyone cares about at all. Posted code is normally not > documented and often untested and full of bugs. > Maybe it is hard to change the definition of amend. > Cheers, > Erling > > > On 2017-09-22 22:44, Erling Hellenäs wrote: >> >> >> http://www.jsoftware.com/cgi-bin/forumsearch.cgi?all=&exa=open+source&one=&exc=&add=erling&sub=&fid=&tim=0&rng=0&dbgn=1&mbgn=1&ybgn=1998&dend=31&mend=12¥d=2017 >> /Erling >> >> On 2017-09-22 19:29, Charrolle Lewisse wrote: >>> >>> Erling Hellänas just posted "more about open source" ... is this a >>> continuation of a previous chat? if yes, are there archives where new >>> members can catch up? thnx >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >> >> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
