Certainly Ken deserves the highest honor the J community could bestow. That said: remember that "Pascal" and "Ada" are not authors of their respectively named programming languages. Their names pre-existed as understandably savvy choices for any programming languages that, however many centuries later, might came along.
Lettow, Kenneth wrote: > I always thought that the best one word name for J would be "Iverson". > We have Haskell, Pascal, Ada etc., why not Iverson? > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of PMA > Sent: Saturday, June 11, 2011 2:04 PM > To: Programming forum > Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] [JGeneral] One word description of J > > Sorry, I'm stuck thinking of this One Word as, not a description, > but a new name for J. So (in case that subject ever comes up) > how about "Pythagoras"? > > Richard Hill wrote: >> Why are J-people trying to get the world to pay attention to J? >> J is so good, it would be better to keep it a secret. >> In the history of maths, new techniques for things like extracting > roots >> were kept secret. >> Wasn't Pythagoras the leader of a secret mathematical cult? >> Lets establish a secret guild, we could call ourselves Iversonians. >> We would refuse to let people know about our secrets, until they are >> initiated. >> People would be curious about the secret of the Iversonians. >> It might attract more attention than any other method of publicising > J. >> The one word description would be "secret". >> >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] >> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dan T. Abell >> Sent: Saturday, 11 June 2011 15:27 >> To: Programming forum >> Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] One word description of J >> >> No, ..., but it's trying really hard to get moved over to >> the Jgeneral forum ... ;-) >> >> >> On 10 Jun 2011, at 18:22, PMA wrote: >> >>> is this thread trying to find a new name for 'J"? >> >> -- >> Dan T. Abell :: dabell at txcorp dot com :: 303.444.2452 >> Tech-X Corp., 5621 Arapahoe Ave, Ste A, Boulder CO 80303 >> http://www.txcorp.com :: 303.748.6894/c 303.448.7756/fx >> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
