When Adam named the Animals, he had a totally clean slate. He was the last person to enjoy that privilege. Those of us who come later have to feel our way round the nomenclature that's there already.
But if we're all in the mood for a terminological spring clean, let's do it properly and start at the beginning… I never understood why I have to call all my variables "nouns". And when people say "nouns" meaning "pronouns", surely it proves the point. On Tue, 5 Apr 2022 at 19:31, Brian Schott <[email protected]> wrote: > Ian Clark posted a message saying he has created a stub page > https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Vocabulary/Debug . Also Raul Miller > recently posted regarding another link > https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Vocabulary/Foreigns . I wonder if it is > time to rename NuVoc as Vocabulary? I just never got accustomed to the name > NuVoc and I can't imagine that new users can grok NuVoc, or even > Vocabulary. > > Also, instead of having that list of "Ancillary pages" and some of > the other appendages would it be more consistent with some earlier > documentation to use the page format of > https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Plot > ? > > While I'm on this tirade (sorry to all), are we looking for trouble with > our recent thoughts about defining the data structure of a "Dictionary" > when j has historically used that word differently? > > By the way, I am really thankful for all the progress being made by the > wiki group and do not wish to add to their task. > > -- > (B=) <-----my sig > Brian Schott > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
