I do not have any specific details on this issue. My impression was that this was a fairly informal process, (though probably influenced by writeups of other people's work on related subjects).
It might be an interesting "treasure hunt" to find formal papers that use these words, or similar words, to describe similar concepts. That said, I'd keep in mind that the two hardest problems in programming are naming things, garbage collection and off-by-one errors. -- Raul On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 8:04 AM, Steven Taylor <[email protected]> wrote: > is there a reason why the words "bond", "compose", "atop", "at" and "key" > were chosen? Is there a naming context, or a natural language example to > give a sense of how these words came to represent these ideas? > > For the most part, I think I understand what these verbs and conjunctions > do... it's just that I don't have a story behind them in the same way as I > might for something like boxing. i.e. > > real world places where you immediately apply the inverse of a preceding > function after doing an operation along the line of boxing (something that > I read that Ken asked once). Examples of this: > > - open fridge door, get milk, close fridge door > - surgeon: make incision, do operation, stitch up > > following up on some of these words. Here's what I got out of the oed > earlier: > > key: b. intr. Of a plant or animal: to be identified or assigned to a > particular taxon by the use of a key. Usu. with out. > > Any clues appreciated. > > thanks, > -Steven T. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
