Mixing up noun/pronoun merely shows that it is easy to confuse the name
of a thing with the thing itself. The root problem is that if you want
to be precise, you can't say 'x is 5': you must say 'the value of x is
5'. No one has time for that.
Henry Rich
On 4/5/2022 3:34 PM, Ian Clark wrote:
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.
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