Very nice. I like the color coding on the main table. With NuVoc people are running out of excuses when it comes to learning J.
Of course the real barriers have always been cultural and personal. We either don't want to learn, for various reasons, or we are lazy sobs and cannot stick to a regime. I've been guilty of both more times that I would care to enumerate. On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 11:16 AM, Joe Bogner <joebog...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thank you Ian and others! I have been using NuVoc on a near daily > basis since I first found out about it a few months back. I often > either start or end up at the current J Dictionary. Having NuVoc has > been incredibly helpful with additional examples and having similar > things said different ways as Voc. > > > On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 11:21 PM, Ian Clark <earthspo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Thank you everyone for your help in finishing this (and other) pages: > > http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Vocabulary/hcapdot > > > > This completes NuVoc, the "Accessible Dictionary" the J community started > > over 2 years ago. Though I've no doubt individual pages can be improved. > > Comments about this are invited from newcomers to J. > > > > The current J Dictionary ("Voc") > > http://jsoftware.com/help/dictionary/vocabul.htm > > is a praiseworthy piece of work. It is concise, precise and consistent, > > employing a terminology (nouns, verbs, lists, etc) that is the tersest > and > > least cluttered I've met in any discipline. But J newcomers tend to find > it > > rather dry. > > > > NuVoc does not seek to replace it: only to offer a less demanding > > alternative to Voc for J learners seeking reference material indexed by J > > primitive. Each NuVoc page has a prominent pointer to Voc. This has > > simplified the treatment, since it is assumed readers will progress to > the > > Voc page once they have grasped the essentials from NuVoc. > > > > The point-of-access is: http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/NuVoc > > to which http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Vocabulary now redirects. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > -- John D. Baker bakerj...@gmail.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
