Hi Ian, Have you considered looking into C++ Glossary http://www.stroustrup.com/glossary.html ? I enjoyed "The Annotated C++ Reference Manual" when I was learning C++ for the first time.
C++ is an established ISO standard - latest being granted in December 2017 as *ISO/IEC 14882 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B#Standardization>:2017* (informally known as C++17 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B17>) [1] My 2c, Yuvaraj [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 4:28 AM, Ian Clark <earthspo...@gmail.com> wrote: > It's absurdly difficult to write a good "first-contact" text for J without > reference to a single accepted source of definitions like: platform, > program, app, script, variable, constant, function, array, string, > character, number … > > Is there an ISO standard for common programmer terms (in English)? > > If the answer is: legion (…my first impression) – then is there one that > stands out for you? > > I have an operational need for a weblink to a good clear published free > authoritative text. To avoid cluttering this thread, please don't offer > your own definitions of the above terms here (although of course I'd be > frightfully interested to hear them one day.) > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
