What is really weird is that the extremely intelligent humans who invented this remarkable language didn’t foresee this problem in the first place!
> On 9 May 2023, at 22:47, Hauke Rehr <hauke.r...@uni-jena.de> wrote: > > You are right, C is an ususable language. > I think noone uses it. You cannot search. > > This thread is silly. > J is one of <size of alphabet> single letter names. > It’s fine. > >> Am 09.05.23 um 22:56 schrieb Richard Donovan: >> 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 > > -- > ---------------------- > mail written using NEO > neo-layout.org > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
