Re: direction
- Posted by Jiri Babor <J.Babor at GNS.CRI.NZ> Mar 24, 2000
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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