Re: alternatives to eval

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From	Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de>
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Subject	Re: alternatives to eval
Date	Thu, 27 Nov 2014 10:37:17 +0100
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Evertjan. wrote:

> Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn […] wrote:
>> Evertjan. wrote: 
>>> Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
>>>> Please refrain from making guesses until you can make educated ones.
                                                           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>>> TIA.
>>> Guessing is an important part of education, I guess.
>> Guess again.
> 
> Don't be so patronizing,

Patronizing?  Either your irony detector or your English dictionary is 
b0rked.

But if you insist to keep this serious:

No, guesswork, whether understood as blind guessing or unfounded estimation, 
is _not_ an important part of education because such approach based on them 
can only lead to half-knowledge (incidentally, this is most obvious with 
students of ECMAScript-based programming languages who are frequently 
overconfident because of seeming early successes even without a solid 
theoretical foundation).

One must differentiate between guesswork and informed estimation and 
(scientific) inquiry, whereas the latter two are based on *previous* 
knowledge.  Hence the distinction between guesses and “*educated* guesses”.

> your knowledge does not include much selfknowledge.

Now *that* is patronizing.

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alternatives to eval gandalf23@mail.com - 2014-11-21 08:23 -0800
  Re: alternatives to eval Bala <k.balamurugan@gmail.com> - 2014-11-21 09:34 -0800
    Re: alternatives to eval gandalf23@mail.com - 2014-11-21 11:10 -0800
  Re: alternatives to eval Sean Hagen <sean.hagen@gmail.com> - 2014-11-21 10:05 -0800
    Re: alternatives to eval Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-11-21 20:01 +0100
      Re: alternatives to eval gandalf23@mail.com - 2014-11-21 11:48 -0800
        Re: alternatives to eval Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-11-21 21:09 +0100
          Re: alternatives to eval "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2014-11-21 22:41 +0100
            Re: alternatives to eval Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-11-26 22:11 +0100
              Re: alternatives to eval "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2014-11-27 00:28 +0100
                Re: alternatives to eval Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-11-27 10:37 +0100
                Re: alternatives to eval "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2014-11-27 11:38 +0100
                Re: alternatives to eval Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-11-27 12:13 +0100
          Re: alternatives to eval gandalf23@mail.com - 2014-11-21 14:19 -0800

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