[Jprogramming] One word description of J

Steven Taylor taylste at gmail.com
Fri Jun 10 05:52:42 HKT 2011


this is another thread... but this comment below sparked a thought.  I
really like this reaching / naming / linguistic / mathmatical thing that Mr
Iverson did.  Also, just because it doesn't fit into English now, it doesn't
mean that it shouldn't in the future.



On 9 June 2011 09:32, Boyko Bantchev <boykobb at gmail.com> wrote:

> Speaking of pronouns and proverbs, we also have pro-adverbs and
> pro-conjunctions in J.  Especially interesting is "pro-con-junction",
> as it manages to be both pro- and con- w.r.t. something ... but, in J,
> we are used to ambivalence anyway.


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