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Re: Why “new”?

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On Mon, 07 Feb 2011 19:18:19 -0500, Lew wrote:

> On 02/07/2011 07:03 PM,
> Ken Wesson wrote:
>>> I decided that J had to be some kind of tool, mathematical notation,
>>> or something the learning of which made APL code more understandable
>>> as a side-effect; but from the context it was not clear to me whether
>>> it was a programming language itself, an APL IDE, a species of
>>> mathematical theory, or any of a number of other things.
> 
> Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> You could have tried all the 3 you list.

There comes a point when finding out what someone meant is easier by 
simply asking them rather than googling. I find that point tends to come 
if I'd have to run three or four google queries in a row to get the 
answer rather than, say, one.

Furthermore, I wasn't sure Google wouldn't just ignore a query term that 
was a single letter, or match anything with the letter "j" anywhere in 
the page and fitting the other criteria. In that event, googling J 
programming language (no quotation marks) would have turned up the same 
hits, more or less, as just googling programming language, for example.

Why are you making such a mountain out of the molehill of my asking 
someone to clarify what J was, anyway? It doesn't strike me as an 
unreasonable question under the circumstances.

> That would have required reason and effort, and obviated the excuse to
> troll.

And that is simply not constructive.

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Re: Why “new”? Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom3minus1@eastlink.ca> - 2011-02-06 09:13 -0400
  Re: Why “new”? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-02-08 22:59 -0500
  Re: Why “new”? Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2011-02-09 12:55 +0000
  Re: Why “new”? Ken Wesson <kwesson@gmail.com> - 2011-02-07 05:42 +0100
    Re: Why “new”? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-02-08 23:07 -0500
    Re: Why “new”? Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-02-08 07:39 -0500
      Re: Why “new”? Ken Wesson <kwesson@gmail.com> - 2011-02-08 16:14 +0100
    Re: Why “new”? Peter Duniho <NpOeStPeAdM@NnOwSlPiAnMk.com> - 2011-02-08 20:22 +0800
    Re: Why “new”? Ken Wesson <kwesson@gmail.com> - 2011-02-08 11:59 +0100
    Re: Why “new”? Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-02-07 19:18 -0500
    Re: Why “new”? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-02-07 19:03 -0500
  Re: Why “new”? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-02-07 19:01 -0500
    Re: Why “new”? Ken Wesson <kwesson@gmail.com> - 2011-02-08 12:33 +0100
      Re: Why “new”? Peter Duniho <NpOeStPeAdM@NnOwSlPiAnMk.com> - 2011-02-08 20:32 +0800
  Re: Why “new”? Ken Wesson <kwesson@gmail.com> - 2011-02-07 04:45 +0100
    Re: Why “new”? Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2011-02-06 20:20 -0800
  Re: Why “new”? Peter Duniho <NpOeStPeAdM@NnOwSlPiAnMk.com> - 2011-02-07 11:27 +0800
  Re: Why “new”? Ken Wesson <kwesson@gmail.com> - 2011-02-07 04:17 +0100

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