There used to be a small bump on the J key for touch typists. On Thu, May 31, 2018, 4:10 PM PR PackRat <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
