See the Introduction of Ken's 1991 paper, A Personal View of APL. http://www.jsoftware.com/papers/APLPersonalView.htm
----- Original Message ----- From: "Leigh J. Halliwell" <[email protected]> Date: Saturday, June 11, 2011 11:10 Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] One word description of J To: 'Programming forum' <[email protected]> > Dear J Forum: > > This thread has made me curious about the name. I can > understand APL for 'A > Programming Language'. When did the Iversons (Chris too?) > begin to improve > APL, and why did they decide to name it 'J'? More > generally, what was the > pre-history (Urgeschichte) of J, and why was the need felt to > move away from > APL? > > Leigh > > -----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"? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
