-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Oleg Kobchenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I don't like the idea of re-inventing definitions and > introducing new terms. Oleg, I'm playing a (J) conservative tonight, but I'll have to agree. J does have a learning curve, and the dictionary can be, um, mentally stimulating to understand fully, but it's got the definite advantage of being clear and unambiguous. Once one has wrapped ones' head around the "official" ways, it can get confusing to see different terminologies. I don't have any problem with people explaining things in different ways, since we all learn somewhat differently (that's why LJ and JfC, among others, have been great contributions), but I agree that we just confuse ourselves if we get away from the fundamental names and definitions. As I've probably bored everyone with, I look on learning J a bit like learning a foreign (natural) language, and we don't generally benefit - From telling others to change the foreign language we're learning (or even their grammar books) to make it match the language we already know; we just dive in and keep speaking and listening, writing and reading, until it clicks. But, in a lighter spirit, Mark Twain did that for German; see http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/jod/texts/twain.german.html Bill - -- Bill Harris http://facilitatedsystems.com/weblog/ Facilitated Systems Everett, WA 98208 USA http://facilitatedsystems.com/ phone: +1 425 337-5541 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) Comment: For more information, see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQFG6LAu3J3HaQTDvd8RAsXyAJ4/9HVr6/R/D3tPgIC8iGt6o3Ea3gCffWoE 6btM5CjT4tFvAywr7TdE+AE= =Q2gq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
