I thought that's what I did. I might have tried to shoehorn "jsoftware.com" into the 140 characters. However, I note that Googling "J programming language" gets Jsoftware.com as the top hit, so that's probably not necessary.
>From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elevator_pitch : An elevator pitch is often used by an entrepreneur pitching an idea to a venture capitalist or angel investor to receive funding. Venture capitalists often judge the quality of an idea by the quality of its elevator pitch and will ask entrepreneurs for their elevator pitches in order to quickly weed out bad ideas and weak teams. Elevator pitches are also used in many other situations. Personal uses include job interviewing, dating, and summarizing professional services. Having thought about it for 3 additional hours I still wouldn't change a thing. The following is a bit shorter and could be used if I had to fit in additional stuff (could also use "e.g." instead of "For example"), but I want to sound conversational, as if I am not constrained by the 140 chars. jtweet1=: 0 : 0 J is a programming language that works with arrays, verbs, and adverbs. For example, +/x sums array x and /:~x sorts it. ) #jtweet1 123 I will start an Essay in the Jwiki. Y'all can put in your own versions. ----- Original Message ----- From: Dan Bron <[email protected]> Date: Friday, June 10, 2011 12:54 Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] One word description of J To: 'Programming forum' <[email protected]> > Fair enough. > > Now, if in 140 characters your goal was to convince a stranger to > investigate J, what would you write? > > -Dan > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Roger Hui > Sent: Friday, June 10, 2011 12:27 PM > To: Programming forum > Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] One word description of J > > jtweet=: 0 : 0 > J is a programming language that works with > arrays, verbs, and adverbs. For example, > +/x computes the sum of array x and /:~x sorts it. > ) > > # jtweet > 138 > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Dan Bron <[email protected]> > Date: Friday, June 10, 2011 9:12 > Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] One word description of J > To: 'Programming forum' <[email protected]> > > > > Why is the description restricted to one word? > > > > Why are haikus restricted to 17 syllables? > > > > Anyway, the contemporary version of the elevator pitch is a tweet. > > > > Can you capture J in 140 characters, or less? > > > > -Dan > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [email protected] > > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Roger Hui > > Sent: Friday, June 10, 2011 11:31 AM > > To: Programming forum > > Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] One word description of J > > > > I think the premise of this discussion is flawed. > > Why is the description restricted to one word? > > > > There is an alternative, the "elevator conversation". > > You know, you've met a stranger in an elevator and you have > > to sell your idea during the elevator ride. What would you say? > > I've had some success using the +/x example. If there > > is more time it can easily extend into +/"r x . If there is > > more time still I might use avg=:+/%# and avg"r x . > > > > In January 2000, I was at the Iverson Software booth at the > > AMS meeting at Washing DC, http://keiapl.info/anec/#NSA1 > > giving people who dropped by 10 minute presentations on > > the computer. The presentation was later codified as the > > lab > > "An Idiosyncratic Introduction to J". Ken later expanded > > that > > into the lab "A J Introduction", 14 chapters of which the > first > > is the "Idiosyncratic Introduction". (Ken was so verbose!) > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: Devon McCormick <[email protected]> > > Date: Friday, June 10, 2011 7:01 > > Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] One word description of J > > To: Programming forum <[email protected]> > > > > > My favorite adjective to describe J is "succinct". > > > However, the limitation > > > of this single word fails to capture other important > features > > of the > > > language such as its power and clean, careful, extensible design. > > > > > > Perhaps a more interesting exercise is to assemble a 30- > second > > > or a 5-minute > > > introduction to the language. My own attempt (introduced at > > > > > > http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/DevonMcCormick/LanguageSlapdown, > > > presentation.JPGs at > > > > > > http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/DevonMcCormick/PresentingJIn5Minutes)suffers > > from trying to cram too much into 5 minutes. I doubt more > than one > > > person in a hundred would actually understand the bulk of > this talk. > > > > > > It's a lot more work than coming up with a single word, but > > the > > > J community > > > would benefit from having an arsenal of short presentations > > like this. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
