It might be because it’s not a real issue.
It not being a real issue might be why none
of those languages changed its name.
I know of at least A,B,C,D,E,I,J,K,M,Q,R, and S
as language names¹ – and I bet there are X,Y and Z
at least.
Why didn’t their respective communities change
the name? Are we the only enlightened people
seeing an issue everyone else is blind to?
(And do we want to set us more apart from K and Q?)
¹ tbh, I don’t remember if E was actually a proper language
Am 10.05.23 um 08:02 schrieb Richard Donovan:
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
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