The colophone should be a big ascii art letter J made of all of the J primitives, perhaps of J phrases. Extra points if someone can design a one liner to output such a picture!
2009/11/25 Dan Bron <[email protected]>: > Matthew Brand wrote: >> there is something about the way [public J code] >> is organized that does not exactly make it easy >> to find programs that are already written to >> do the thing you want to do. > > A common lament. The NYC JUG has entertained the idea of taking the help > index for a popular programming language (e.g. VB or C#) and filling it > out with pointers to J implementations. That's a lot of work, and still > suffers from the "chinese menu" or "synonym" problem (Roget's malady). > For example, if you were looking for Ric's utility, would you seek "make > directory" or "create directory" or "mkdir" .... ? And what would the > next guy search for? > > My personal (uneducated) opinion is that the J world is small enough to > include in the distribution (i.e. the Forum archives, a copy of > jsoftware.com, and any other relevant J resources -- maybe even the PDFs > linked to from the Wiki Bibliography). Then the frontend could provide a > UI to search all these files (and could even pass the buck to a standard > file searching tool like grep). > >> What would be great is a "J in a Nutshell" book > > Before we even start, we must address the most important question: what > would the colophon be? A Jay? A Jaguar? A Jackal? A Jellyfish? > > -Dan > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
