I always thought that the best one word name for J would be "Iverson". We have Haskell, Pascal, Ada etc., why not Iverson?
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of PMA Sent: Saturday, June 11, 2011 2:04 PM To: Programming forum Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] [JGeneral] One word description of J Sorry, I'm stuck thinking of this One Word as, not a description, but a new name for J. So (in case that subject ever comes up) how about "Pythagoras"? Richard Hill wrote: > Why are J-people trying to get the world to pay attention to J? > J is so good, it would be better to keep it a secret. > In the history of maths, new techniques for things like extracting roots > were kept secret. > Wasn't Pythagoras the leader of a secret mathematical cult? > Lets establish a secret guild, we could call ourselves Iversonians. > We would refuse to let people know about our secrets, until they are > initiated. > People would be curious about the secret of the Iversonians. > It might attract more attention than any other method of publicising J. > The one word description would be "secret". > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dan T. Abell > Sent: Saturday, 11 June 2011 15:27 > To: Programming forum > Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] One word description of J > > No, ..., but it's trying really hard to get moved over to > the Jgeneral forum ... ;-) > > > On 10 Jun 2011, at 18:22, PMA wrote: > >> is this thread trying to find a new name for 'J"? > > -- > Dan T. Abell :: dabell at txcorp dot com :: 303.444.2452 > Tech-X Corp., 5621 Arapahoe Ave, Ste A, Boulder CO 80303 > http://www.txcorp.com :: 303.748.6894/c 303.448.7756/fx > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
