> Why is the description restricted to one word? Why are haikus restricted to 17 syllables?
Anyway, the contemporary version of the elevator pitch is a tweet. Can you capture J in 140 characters, or less? -Dan -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Roger Hui Sent: Friday, June 10, 2011 11:31 AM To: Programming forum Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] One word description of J I think the premise of this discussion is flawed. Why is the description restricted to one word? There is an alternative, the "elevator conversation". You know, you've met a stranger in an elevator and you have to sell your idea during the elevator ride. What would you say? I've had some success using the +/x example. If there is more time it can easily extend into +/"r x . If there is more time still I might use avg=:+/%# and avg"r x . In January 2000, I was at the Iverson Software booth at the AMS meeting at Washing DC, http://keiapl.info/anec/#NSA1 giving people who dropped by 10 minute presentations on the computer. The presentation was later codified as the lab "An Idiosyncratic Introduction to J". Ken later expanded that into the lab "A J Introduction", 14 chapters of which the first is the "Idiosyncratic Introduction". (Ken was so verbose!) ----- Original Message ----- From: Devon McCormick <[email protected]> Date: Friday, June 10, 2011 7:01 Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] One word description of J To: Programming forum <[email protected]> > My favorite adjective to describe J is "succinct". > However, the limitation > of this single word fails to capture other important features of the > language such as its power and clean, careful, extensible design. > > Perhaps a more interesting exercise is to assemble a 30-second > or a 5-minute > introduction to the language. My own attempt (introduced at > http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/DevonMcCormick/LanguageSlapdown, > presentation.JPGs at > http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/DevonMcCormick/PresentingJIn5Minutes)suffers from trying to cram too much into 5 minutes. I doubt more than one > person in a hundred would actually understand the bulk of this talk. > > It's a lot more work than coming up with a single word, but the > J community > would benefit from having an arsenal of short presentations like this. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
