One of the most useful additions would be on how to get help, and in particular 
how to get help -- or provision of actual help -- on the J stdlib. 

>From the viewpoint of newcomers to J, and even rusty old-timers, the most 
>serious impediment to learning, or usefully proceeding with, J is the 
>deplorable state of its documentation -- a grab-bag of files, wiki pages, 
>books such as yours, etc., whose lack of integration and difficulty of unified 
>navigation makes things so much more difficult than they need to be.

 
On 27 Dec 2014 11:16:04, Roger Stokes <[email protected]> 
wrote:

> I'm thinking of producing one more revision
> of "Learning J", and this will probably be the last.
> 
> I would be glad to know if people have any thoughts on
> what topics are not adequately covered, or not covered
> at all, or things that could be better explained.
> 
> If so, a good time to mention it would be now.

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