Re: direction
Irv wrote:
>On Wed, 22 Mar 2000, Kat wrote:
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Jiri Babor" <J.Babor at GNS.CRI.NZ>
>>
>> > Irv, Bernie, Joel, Kat & co,
>> >
>> > I know, I am not going to win any friends with what I am going to
>> > say,but I have to say it anyway:
>> > your arogance through total ignorance is breath taking! jiri (APL fan)
>>
>> What arrogance?!? I have no idea how to write a useful program in
>> Perl or in APL, what am i arrogant about?? The only thing i did was
>> poke some fun at a manufactured language that was apparently designed
>> to be totally incompatable to any natural languages.
>>
>> Kat
>
>Besides, it isn't arrogance when you're right.
>
>Irv
Your type, Irv, is always right. That's exactly what I was referring
to.
You obviously do not realize, it's all a matter of degree. If, for
instance, you are presented with five little symbols
x=y+z
you do not demand translation into 'replace whatever is in container x
with sum of contents of containers y and z'. The bunch looks perfectly
natural to you, but in the Kat's way it certainly isn't. Sometimes
people brighter than you just take the level of abstraction a bit
higher, beyond your reach. But that's not a valid reason to sneer at
their efforts.
jiri
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