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From: Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com>
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Subject: Re: How About Disallowing Assignments In Expressions?
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2024 17:58:44 -0800
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Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> writes:

> David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> writes:
>
>> On 19/02/2024 03:26, Malcolm McLean wrote:
>>
>>> Our maths teacher was Selby Brock (a brilliant man who taught that
>>> the earth was flat),
>>
>> Isn't that somewhat of an oxymoron?  I had one primary teacher that
>> taught that there were 10 planets (Pluto was still called a planet at
>> the time, and he counted the sun as a planet) and another that did not
>> consider the sun to be a star or the earth to be a planet.  But these
>> were /not/ good teachers.
>>
>> It's conceivable that this person was a good teacher of maths, but
>> that's different from being a good teacher in general.
>
> David, this is why this newsgroup has such a poor signal-to-noise ratio.
>
> You don't have to reply to everything.

Well said.