Hi I’ve not replied on this email exchange before but I agree very much so. I believe part of the issue is the fact the language is fairly niche, but the fact that java comes up when I search just j can be a bit silly. Searching J lang sometimes works however.
On Tue, May 9, 2023 at 4:56 PM Richard Donovan <rsdono...@hotmail.com> wrote: > One of the most frustrating things about J is its name! For example, on > Stack Exchange code review it seems impossible to search for any J > articles, comments, code snippets etc. and I could suggest that rather than > bother about whether to call the latest version J4, J904 etc which is > trivial, you do something really useful such as change the name of the > language to something sensible that can be searched upon. I know that in > the past radical changes have been made to J eg changing x. and y. to x and > y and I also know that a change of name would take a while to filter > through but I do feel that eventually this change would have incredible > benefits, similar to the recent long overdue introduction of sensible error > messages which has been a real boon to me! > > Richard Donovan > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
