That is a great quote, and I agree with you that "it fits the study of J quite nicely".
I think you need to e-mail Chris Burke to get access to edit the Demographics page. Thanks, Ken -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of J. Patrick Harrington Sent: Friday, January 22, 2010 4:14 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Jgeneral] Gellius on J? / adding link to webpage? While reading the "Attic Nights" by the Roman author Gellius (ca 160 CE), and came across a passage that he wrote about the study of logic, but that seems to fit the study of "J" quite nicely: "... and I need only add by way of advice, that the study and knowledge of this science in its rudiments does indeed, as a rule, seem forbidding and contemptible, as well as disagreeable and useless. But when you have made some progress, then finally its advantages will become clear to you, and a kind of insatiable desire for acquiring it will arise; so much so, that if you do not set bounds to it, there will be great danger lest, as many others have done, you should reach a second childhood amid those mazes and meanders of logic, as if among the rocks of the Sirens." As I was putting this on my J webpage, when I realized that there is no reference to my page on the "J User community" pages of the jsoftware site. Under "Demographics" there is an invitation to "add yourself to the ... community of J users", but it's not obvious how to do that. Could I get a link to my page at http://www.astro.umd.edu/~jph/J_page.html added somewhere? I know the subset of those interested in both J and in astrophysics may be vanishingly small, but who knows, someone may find something of interest there. J. Patrick Harrington ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
