[Jprogramming] The Accessible Dictionary released

[Ian Clark]

@John -- thank you.

No excuses not to learn J...? Ha-ha, if-only. Plugging away at it to get it
done, the burgeoning Raspberry Pi community was very much in my mind. We
can kid ourselves J documentation is as good as netizen volunteers can get
it. But when you contemplate an actual audience, you know just what they'll
think.

I've a lot more confidence now, writing an article for MagPi using J.

I had no hand in the color coding. Someone with advanced Moinmoin skills
did that. (Was it Devon?) I think it's gorgeous, too. Adds a bit of glamour
to the site.


On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 5:37 PM, John Baker <bakerjd99 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Very nice. I like the color coding on the main table.
>
> With NuVoc people are running out of excuses when it comes to learning J.
>
> Of course the real barriers have always been cultural and personal. We
> either don't want to learn, for various reasons, or we are lazy sobs and
> cannot stick to a regime. I've been guilty of both more times that I would
> care to enumerate.
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 11:16 AM, Joe Bogner <joebogner at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Thank you Ian and others! I have been using NuVoc on a near daily
> > basis since I first found out about it a few months back. I often
> > either start or end up at the current J Dictionary. Having NuVoc has
> > been incredibly helpful with additional examples and having similar
> > things said different ways as Voc.
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 11:21 PM, Ian Clark <earthspotty at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > > Thank you everyone for your help in finishing this (and other) pages:
> > > http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Vocabulary/hcapdot
> > >
> > > This completes NuVoc, the "Accessible Dictionary" the J community
> started
> > > over 2 years ago. Though I've no doubt individual pages can be
> improved.
> > > Comments about this are invited from newcomers to J.
> > >
> > > The current J Dictionary ("Voc")
> > > http://jsoftware.com/help/dictionary/vocabul.htm
> > > is a praiseworthy piece of work. It is concise, precise and consistent,
> > > employing a terminology (nouns, verbs, lists, etc) that is the tersest
> > and
> > > least cluttered I've met in any discipline. But J newcomers tend to
> find
> > it
> > > rather dry.
> > >
> > > NuVoc does not seek to replace it: only to offer a less demanding
> > > alternative to Voc for J learners seeking reference material indexed
> by J
> > > primitive. Each NuVoc page has a prominent pointer to Voc. This has
> > > simplified the treatment, since it is assumed readers will progress to
> > the
> > > Voc page once they have grasped the essentials from NuVoc.
> > >
> > > The point-of-access is: http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/NuVoc
> > > to which http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Vocabulary now redirects.
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>
>
>
> --
> John D. Baker
> bakerjd99 at gmail.com
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