Threads aren’t “silly” just because you don’t agree with their premise.
What IS silly is the inordinate amount of time that must surely have been wasted by potential J developers not being easily able to find what they are seeking. A change to the name would be a quantum improvement of the current situation, on the same scale as the recently introduced and long overdue introduction of meaningful error messages, which I always considered to be a huge drawback. Serious question : how much work would really be involved in changing the name? I realise that this would only help in finding web pages etc. that had been written after the name change had been introduced, but you have to start somewhere and I imagine some of the clever people who read this forum may be able to come up with ways to retrofit such a change. > 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
