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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, so I tried:

programming language j

The first two Google results were
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J_(programming_language) and www.jsoftware.com/

Patricia