On 8 December 2012 15:07, Raul Miller <rauldmil...@gmail.com> wrote: > To my knowledge, no studies have been done to investigate this issue.
People interested in conducting such a study are those willing to demonstrate that J would be easier, compared to traditional notation, for school students to read and think in. Holders of the opposite opinion do not need to prove anything, as that opinion prevails. > And, if we constrain our use of J to only those operations which > have equivalents in traditional algebraic notation ... ... then you will be doing a pointless thing. > Note that traditional algebraic notation has analogous issues. Whatever issues it may have, they are hardly 'analogous', and are of much lesser scale. > But both of these pale to insignificance when compared to the > number of issues of this sort represented by the english language. > So I feel this enumeration of partial contexts is a red herring. What *is* red herring is trying to foist issues of natural languages when one formal notation is compared to another. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
