[Jprogramming] The Ambiguous Dictionary

[bill lam]

ĵaŭ, 28 Jan 2010, Skip Cave skribis:
> There is another, more important reason why this newbie bias is the 
> right thing to do. It is much easier to skip over a concept that  you 
> already understand in a text, than try to discover the explanation for a 
> concept presented in the text that you don't understand. If a 
> moderately-experienced reader reads a TW vocabulary entry and encounters 
> a passage that they already understand, they can simply skip over it. If 
> the novice reader encounters a passage they don't understand, how do 
> they find where that concept is explained in newbie-language? They 
> probably won't even know what keywords they should search for, in the 
> overall document.

IMO the current DOJ is like a unilingual dictionary in human language,
it gives the more exact and correct definition for native speakers or
advanced learners, but a newbie is often not yet capable of
comprehension.  A bilingual J dictionary that translate J words or
concept to their more familiar languages or concepts is easier to
understand albeit not an exact definition.

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regards,
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