From: Ken Wesson Subject: Re: Why =?iso-8859-13?b?tG5ld6E/?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer References: <4d4da290$0$23764$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <4d4dac30$0$23765$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <4d4e29fb$1@news.x-privat.org> <4d4f6434$1@news.x-privat.org> <4d4f6ae3$1@news.x-privat.org> <4d5087dd$0$23758$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit NNTP-Posting-Host: $$-cwgml$lsc2q.news.x-privat.org Message-ID: <4d5129f8$1@news.x-privat.org> Date: 8 Feb 2011 12:33:12 +0100 Organization: X-Privat.Org NNTP Server - http://www.x-privat.org Lines: 25 X-Authenticated-User: $$o-16a0wpsuhxkoyemw X-Complaints-To: abuse@x-privat.org Path: csiph.com!eeepc.pasdenom.info!news.pasdenom.info!news.dougwise.org!gegeweb.org!newsfeed.x-privat.org!x-privat.org!not-for-mail Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:25907 On Mon, 07 Feb 2011 19:01:41 -0500, Arne Vajhøj wrote: > On 06-02-2011 22:45, 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. > > Since Peter suggested a 22 character query, then that is not so > relevant. Since the only part of Peter's query that was obvious to me was the letter "j", it is relevant. The rest of it Peter got from his prior knowledge that J was a programming language -- knowledge I did not share with him at that time.