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Re: Why “new”?

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In article <4d4faac2$1@news.x-privat.org>,
Ken Wesson  <kwesson@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 07 Feb 2011 15:48:06 +0800, Peter Duniho wrote:
> 
> > On 2/7/11 11:45 AM, 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.
> > 
> > I note that you clipped the _useful_ part of the URL I offered.
> > 
> > If one is so inept at web searches that they cannot be bothered to add
> > relevant terms that are obvious from the context in order to produce a
> > useful result, then yes…I can see how that might cause a problem.  But
> > such a person probably should not be involved in programming in any way.
> 
> See my response to Patricia. 

Which explains why you didn't yourself think to try the additional
search terms suggested by Peter.  What it doesn't explain is why you
quoted only the first part of Peter's URL.  I can't think of any
reason to do that other than -- well, perhaps I won't finish that
sentence.

(I agree that you do have a point here, but the lengths to which
you seem to be going to argue that you have done nothing wrong ....
"Remarkable"?)

> You added "programming language" to the 
> query but the first post mentioning J did not make it clear that it was a 
> programming language, only that learning it would make APL code seem less 
> like line noise. Whether that meant it was an APL derivative, an APL IDE, 
> a mathematical system using similar symbols, or some other tool was not 
> made clear by that post.

[ snip ]

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B. L. Massingill
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Re: Why “new”? Peter Duniho <NpOeStPeAdM@NnOwSlPiAnMk.com> - 2011-02-07 15:48 +0800
  Re: Why “new”? Ken Wesson <kwesson@gmail.com> - 2011-02-08 12:30 +0100
    Re: Why “new”? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-02-08 22:58 -0500
  Re: Why “new”? blmblm@myrealbox.com <blmblm@myrealbox.com> - 2011-02-09 15:31 +0000
  Re: Why “new”? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-02-07 19:10 -0500
  Re: Why “new”? Ken Wesson <kwesson@gmail.com> - 2011-02-08 12:17 +0100
    Re: Why “new”? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-02-08 23:05 -0500
    Re: Why “new”? Peter Duniho <NpOeStPeAdM@NnOwSlPiAnMk.com> - 2011-02-08 20:24 +0800
  Re: Why “new”? Ken Wesson <kwesson@gmail.com> - 2011-02-07 09:18 +0100
    Re: Why “new”? Peter Duniho <NpOeStPeAdM@NnOwSlPiAnMk.com> - 2011-02-07 16:38 +0800

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