P.S. For the record, though I was not joking about "Pythagorus",
my real favorite would be "Phi". But maybe that's taken.
All-told, I'm happy enough with the name as-is, except for
internet searches on 'J' bringing up waaay too much stuff.
PMA wrote:
> 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"?
>>>
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