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Re: Why “new”?

Date	2011-02-08 22:59 -0500
From	Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk>
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Subject	Re: Why “new”?
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On 08-02-2011 06:33, Ken Wesson wrote:
> On Mon, 07 Feb 2011 19:01:41 -0500, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> On 06-02-2011 22:45, Ken Wesson wrote:
>>> On Mon, 07 Feb 2011 11:27:56 +0800, Peter Duniho wrote:
>>>> On 2/7/11 11:17 AM, Ken Wesson wrote:
>>>>> [...]
>>>>>> J has arguably helped with that. Some. Fact is, if you apply
>>>>>> yourself to learning and using J then it's not line-noise at all,
>>>>>> it's just extremely terse. It's not symbol cruft in the same sense
>>>>>> that Perl is.
>>>>>
>>>>> And what, pray tell, is J?
>>>>
>>>> http://www.lmgtfy.com/
>>>
>>> That is needlessly snarky. It's not as if one can google a one-letter
>>> query and expect a useful result.
>>
>> Since Peter suggested a 22 character query, then that is not so
>> relevant.
>
> Since the only part of Peter's query that was obvious to me was the
> letter "j", it is relevant. The rest of it Peter got from his prior
> knowledge that J was a programming language -- knowledge I did not share
> with him at that time.

Well as I suspected and as Peter now has confirmed then he did not
have prior knowledge.

Arne

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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”? 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 19:01 -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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