> Dr. Iverson recommended I read "The Book of J” by Harold Bloom when I was asking about the name he chose for his programming language. >
Perhaps it was an instance of telepathy since, ' I studied this interpreter for about a week for its organization and programming style; and on Sunday, August 27, 1989, at about four o’clock in the afternoon, wrote the first line of code that became the implementation described in this document. The name “J” was chosen a few minutes later, when it became necessary to save the interpreter source file for the first time. — Roger Hui, Remembering Ken Iverson, 2004 ' After decades of true stories [0] Roger might be kind enough to shed more light on how the name was chosen in addition to 'Why "J"? It is easy to type.' (Oh well, apparently, we know at least pretty well when the name was chosen.) [0] [Jprogramming] Hi. (jsoftware.com) <http://www.jsoftware.com/pipermail/programming/2009-October/016557.html> On Fri, Aug 20, 2021 at 6:56 PM Donna Ydreos <[email protected]> wrote: > > Missing persons: > > Both I and J were used interchangeably by scribes to express the sound of both the vowel and the consonant. It wasn’t until 1524 when Gian Giorgio Trissino, an Italian Renaissance grammarian known as the father of the letter J, made a clear distinction between the two sounds. Trissino’s contribution is important because once he distinguished the soft J sound, as in “jam” (probably a loan sound), he was able to identify the Greek “Iesus” a translation of the Hebrew “Yeshua,” as the Modern English “Jesus.” Thus the current phoneme for J was born. It always goes back to Jesus. > > https://www.dictionary.com/e/j/ <https://www.dictionary.com/e/j/> > > J is the title that scholars ascribe to the nameless writer they believe is responsible for the text, written between 950 & 900, on which Genesis, Exodus & Numbers is based. > > ...So Bloom, connoisseur of sublimity, unveils and proceeds to adore Lady J, now seen to be a royal princess, perhaps a daughter of Solomon: a superb aristocrat, a rationalist, a comedian, a feminine ironist, one of Bloom's "strong" poets. > > Dr. Iverson recommended I read "The Book of J” by Harold Bloom when I was asking about the name he chose for his programming language. > > https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/98/11/01/specials/bloom-j.html < https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/98/11/01/specials/bloom-j.html > > > https://www.womeninthebible.net/women-bible-old-new-testaments/basemath-taphath/ < https://www.womeninthebible.net/women-bible-old-new-testaments/basemath-taphath/ > > > > > > On Aug 20, 2021, at 12:45 PM, Roger Hui <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Essays/JforC_Front_Cover > > > > For more than 13 years, #4 in the list laid empty, defying the collective > > knowledge and search abilities of the J community. I have finally pleaded > > with Henry Rich to tell us who the gentleman is. Thank you Henry. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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
