I went back and looked at some of the existing material This seems to be a good list of definitions with examples: http://www.jsoftware.com/help/primer/contents.htm
This text seems devoid of too many terms: http://www.jsoftware.com/books/pdf/easyj.pdf Of course, I'm not reading these with "beginner eyes" so both may still need to be unpacked more On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 7:28 AM, Ian Clark <[email protected]> wrote: > It's absurdly difficult to write a good "first-contact" text for J without > reference to a single accepted source of definitions like: platform, > program, app, script, variable, constant, function, array, string, > character, number … > > Is there an ISO standard for common programmer terms (in English)? > > If the answer is: legion (…my first impression) – then is there one that > stands out for you? > > I have an operational need for a weblink to a good clear published free > authoritative text. To avoid cluttering this thread, please don't offer > your own definitions of the above terms here (although of course I'd be > frightfully interested to hear them one day.) > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
