Path: csiph.com!news.mixmin.net!weretis.net!feeder1.news.weretis.net!news.solani.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn Newsgroups: comp.lang.javascript Subject: Re: Multidimensional arrays in javascript Date: Fri, 04 Dec 2015 20:07:05 +0100 Organization: PointedEars Software (PES) Lines: 44 Message-ID: <1500505.1tKExGrMWI@PointedEars.de> References: <09bd2043-74da-46b5-87ea-11e248847c36@googlegroups.com> <7436839.Us7gLa2v5a@PointedEars.de> <4267376.NJ5XMC3WOf@PointedEars.de> <041220151852227333%timstreater@greenbee.net> Reply-To: Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Trace: solani.org 1449256025 19375 eJwFwQkBwDAIA0BLC08YcqAU/xJ650rwhNFpvr42X+MeEU3pfy5Y1RSp9bTAJHLULlqmO7APHwkRTw== (4 Dec 2015 19:07:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@news.solani.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2015 19:07:05 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: KNode/4.14.2 X-User-ID: eJwNyckBwCAIBMCWRNhFyyEc/ZcQvzNQCtONoGEwIbjLtQq3K15c2G6ILSe7K6f8PKGsyK8zoJY4KadDd8YPU4IV7w== Cancel-Lock: sha1:v06IIcvKrHlYNpuha3/n3LQe9G8= X-NNTP-Posting-Host: eJwNysEBwCAIA8CVREjQcSqG/Uew9z44jZVBMNDotnlwGOW8SJSWdvjd5qkqwZLCH0fn+sL1AB1EERg= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.javascript:28973 Tim Streater wrote: > In article <4267376.NJ5XMC3WOf@PointedEars.de>, Thomas 'PointedEars' > Lahn wrote: > >>John Harris wrote: >> >>> On Fri, 04 Dec 2015 13:37:35 +0100, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn >>> wrote: >> >>Attribution *line*, _not_ attribution novel. > > Novels are much better. Attribution novels are only better in making postings less readable, as can be seen above. >>I just do not agree with your approach. Communicating with people as if >>they were not intelligent keeps them ignorant and dependent. > > It's nothing to do with whether they're intelligent or not; it's to do > with whether they are going to understand what you are talking about. > This justifies using simpler or possibly wrong terms in order to get > the point across. As they pick things up, you adjust your language > accordingly. This is what any good teacher should do. A good teacher does not start with the assumption that their pupils are stupid. > About 40 years ago I had an operation and, afterwards, asked the > surgeon what he had done. He responded as you do: he described the > procedure as if he were talking to another surgeon. A completely > useless response, IOW. Their response was only useless *to you* because *you* did not care to ask or do research about the things that you did not understand. But thank you for reminding me of a missing entry in my new scorefile. -- PointedEars FAQ: | SVN: Twitter: @PointedEars2 | ES Matrix: Please do not cc me. / Bitte keine Kopien per E-Mail.