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| From | Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.javascript |
| Subject | Re: alternatives to eval |
| Date | 2014-11-27 10:37 +0100 |
| Organization | PointedEars Software (PES) |
| Message-ID | <1862104.dX8GrbB7Az@PointedEars.de> (permalink) |
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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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Re: alternatives to eval Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-11-21 21:09 +0100
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Re: alternatives to eval Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-11-26 22:11 +0100
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Re: alternatives to eval Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-11-27 10:37 +0100
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