This is way off-topic--so please forgive me--but I wanted to clarify
some previous messages:

On 5/31/18, Donna Y <[email protected]> wrote:
> Once I asked Ken about the name of J language and he referred me to the Book
> of J for some clues:

Somewhere in the J literature Roger Hui relates how he named it after
the letter "J", which was conveniently under the right index finger
when typing.

As you know, single letter language names were the rage decades ago.
(J's "sibling" was "K", developed by Arthur Whitney and subsequently
revised as "Q".  Whitney had also previously developed the "A" portion
of the "A+" language.)  However, that single-letter feature makes
these languages nearly impossible to find in some search engines,
which usually require at least 3 characters in a search term.  That's
why some people promote using "Jay" as a secondary index term, as in
"Jay language", or appending the two, as in "jlanguage", or being sure
to include more terms than merely "J", such as "J programming
language".  This all depends, of course, on the search engine in a
given application, such as email or Google Search.

>> Biblical scholarship has, by long and minute labor, and with continuing
>> controversy, established that these books are a redaction of at least four
>> separate documents (some say more). One of these, usually regarded as the
>> earliest, was given the label J,
>
>> Nobody knows who J, as the author of J has come to be called for short,
>> was, and many believe there were several J's;
>
> He thought I’d be amused to know that J is thought to be a woman.

I have a theological background, and the documents are not named after
any specific humans.  Rather, the names are generic labels, based on
the portions of the Torah hypothetically contributed by the four main
"editors": J is the Yahwist (uses the name Yahweh for God--J is
pronounced like Y in German, which is where this theory was first
promulgated), E is the Elohist (uses the name Elohim for God), D is
the Deuteronomist (essentially the book of Deuteronomy), and P is the
Priestly editor (essentially the book of Leviticus, with all the
priestly laws).  This is the basis of what is called the "JEDP
hypothesis" or the "documentary hypothesis" of the Torah (or
Pentateuch).

FWIW.

Harvey
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