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Re: Why “new”?

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On Sun, 06 Feb 2011 20:20:54 -0800, Patricia Shanahan wrote:

> On 2/6/2011 7:45 PM, Ken Wesson wrote:
>> On Mon, 07 Feb 2011 11:27:56 +0800, Peter Duniho wrote:
>>
>>> On 2/7/11 11:17 AM, Ken Wesson wrote:
>>>> [...]
>>>>> J has arguably helped with that. Some. Fact is, if you apply
>>>>> yourself to learning and using J then it's not line-noise at all,
>>>>> it's just extremely terse. It's not symbol cruft in the same sense
>>>>> that Perl is.
>>>>
>>>> And what, pray tell, is J?
>>>
>>> http://www.lmgtfy.com/
>>
>> That is needlessly snarky. It's not as if one can google a one-letter
>> query and expect a useful result.
> 
> The trick is to add some terms to give the single letter some context.
>  From the quoted comments, J had to be a programming language

I decided that J had to be some kind of tool, mathematical notation, or 
something the learning of which made APL code more understandable as a 
side-effect; but from the context it was not clear to me whether it was a 
programming language itself, an APL IDE, a species of mathematical 
theory, or any of a number of other things.

People make similar comments about emacs and Lisp -- apply yourself to 
learning emacs and Lisp can become easier to work with (thanks to emacs's 
Lisp-IDE features). (Of course "emacs" is five letters that do not spell 
a common English word, making it easy to find with a search, too. And its 
infamy means you already will know what it is anyway. ;)

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Re: Why “new”? Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom3minus1@eastlink.ca> - 2011-02-06 09:13 -0400
  Re: Why “new”? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-02-08 22:59 -0500
  Re: Why “new”? Ken Wesson <kwesson@gmail.com> - 2011-02-07 05:42 +0100
    Re: Why “new”? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-02-08 23:07 -0500
    Re: Why “new”? Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-02-08 07:39 -0500
      Re: Why “new”? Ken Wesson <kwesson@gmail.com> - 2011-02-08 16:14 +0100
    Re: Why “new”? Peter Duniho <NpOeStPeAdM@NnOwSlPiAnMk.com> - 2011-02-08 20:22 +0800
    Re: Why “new”? Ken Wesson <kwesson@gmail.com> - 2011-02-08 11:59 +0100
    Re: Why “new”? Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-02-07 19:18 -0500
    Re: Why “new”? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-02-07 19:03 -0500
  Re: Why “new”? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-02-07 19:01 -0500
    Re: Why “new”? Ken Wesson <kwesson@gmail.com> - 2011-02-08 12:33 +0100
      Re: Why “new”? Peter Duniho <NpOeStPeAdM@NnOwSlPiAnMk.com> - 2011-02-08 20:32 +0800
  Re: Why “new”? Ken Wesson <kwesson@gmail.com> - 2011-02-07 04:45 +0100
    Re: Why “new”? Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2011-02-06 20:20 -0800
  Re: Why “new”? Peter Duniho <NpOeStPeAdM@NnOwSlPiAnMk.com> - 2011-02-07 11:27 +0800
  Re: Why “new”? Ken Wesson <kwesson@gmail.com> - 2011-02-07 04:17 +0100

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