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[Richard Donovan]

Threads aren’t “silly” just because you don’t agree with their premise.

What IS silly is the inordinate amount of time that must surely have been wasted by potential J developers not being easily able to find what they are seeking.

A change to the name would be a quantum improvement of the current situation, on the same scale as the recently introduced and long overdue introduction of meaningful error messages, which I always considered to be a huge drawback.

Serious question : how much work would really be involved in changing the name? I realise that this would only help in finding web pages etc. that had been written after the name change had been introduced, but you have to start somewhere and I imagine some of the clever people who read this forum may be able to come up with ways to retrofit such a change.

> On 9 May 2023, at 22:47, Hauke Rehr <hauke.rehr at uni-jena.de> wrote:
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> You are right, C is an ususable language.
> I think noone uses it. You cannot search.
>
> This thread is silly.
> J is one of <size of alphabet> single letter names.
> It’s fine.
>
>> Am 09.05.23 um 22:56 schrieb Richard Donovan:
>> One of the most frustrating things about J is its name! For example, on Stack Exchange code review it seems impossible to search for any J articles, comments, code snippets etc. and I could suggest that rather than bother about whether to call the latest version J4, J904 etc which is trivial, you do something really useful such as change the name of the language to something sensible that can be searched upon. I know that in the past radical changes have been made to J eg changing x. and y. to x and y and I also know that a change of name would take a while to filter through but I do feel that eventually this change would have incredible benefits, similar to the recent long overdue introduction of sensible error messages which has been a real boon to me!
>> Richard Donovan
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