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Re: Why “new”?

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On 2/7/11 4:18 PM, Ken Wesson wrote:
> See my response to Patricia. You added "programming language" to the
> query but the first post mentioning J did not make it clear that it was a
> programming language  [...]

Oh, give me a break.  We are talking about programming here.  The word 
is even in the name of the newsgroup.  If you simply search for "j 
programming", you get just as useful a result (and if you're using 
Google, it suggests you complete with "language" anyway).

And your claim that you confused "J" with something that might be useful 
in the context of APL?  Well, guess what comes up in the search results 
if you type "J APL" or "APL J" into Google?

Quit making excuses.  If you can't admit that you should have been able 
to find the information you sought on your own, fine.  It's certainly 
not worth any of the rest of our time to keep hassling you about it. 
But you're not making yourself look any more credible by trying to 
actually _justify_ it.

As far as the rest of your post goes, point taken (if not read through 
thoroughly…sheesh, I thought _I_ could be verbose).  Yes, sometimes 
there are those of us who fail to work hard enough to view something 
from the other person's point of view.  I've made that mistake myself.

But I don't agree that point pertains here.  I don't think you had any 
good excuse for not figuring out what "J" means here.  Pretty much any 
search text that is reasonably relevant/specific to the context here and 
which is more than just the letter "J" is likely to have given you the 
information you needed.  It seems pretty clear that you didn't even 
bother to try.  And that's just lazy.

So complain about me being snarky all you want.  I firmly believe you 
deserved it.  And if you thought _my_ response was too harsh, I can't 
wait to see what you think of the rest of the Internet.

Pete

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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”? Jerry Gerrone <scuzwalla@gmail.com> - 2011-02-08 22:12 -0800
  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”? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-02-07 19:10 -0500
  Re: Why “new”? Ken Wesson <kwesson@gmail.com> - 2011-02-07 04:45 +0100
    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”? Ken Wesson <kwesson@gmail.com> - 2011-02-08 19:49 +0100
      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
    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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