An early reply before they wake up State-side with the authoritative answer.
IFIRC, J scripts started out with a sensible “js” suffix. Along came new boy Java, outgunning J, so forcing the change to”ijs”. Perhaps it stood for something, but I don’t recall any suggestion of an acronym at the time. Cheers, Mike Sent from my iPad > On 7 Oct 2019, at 03:29, ethiejiesa via Chat <[email protected]> wrote: > > One of the more mild surprises I have had coming to J is the ijs filename > suffix convention. Is there any information on its etymology? > > I would assume it's an initialism for something like "Interpreted J Script", > but my default expectation had been for a simple, one character "j" > extension. Perhaps the Windows 8.3 filename convention had some bearing on > this choice in the early days of J? > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
