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From: Richard J. Gaylord <gaylord@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Subject: Re: spoke to Ken Iverson about J written material
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Subject: Re: spoke to Ken Iverson about J written material
From: Eythan Weg, weg@mace.cc.purdue.edu
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 18:38:57 GMT
In article <WEG.92Oct14133857@mace.cc.purdue.edu> Eythan Weg,
weg@mace.cc.purdue.edu writes:
>In article <Bw3r7M.9MJ@news.cso.uiuc.edu> Richard J. Gaylord 
><gaylord@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> writes:
>I am flabbergasted.   But to be sheepishly unhappy with it and then slug
>your discontent on the net is shameful.

>Besides, what exactly do expect from any ISI employee when you recount
>your travail with J. 
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i expect to be told encouraging words like " well, some people, because
of the way they approach the textual material and because of their 
particular approach to learning other programming languages find it
difficult to shift mental gears as is needed to learn J.. however, if
they keep at it (and maybe use the net group to help them resolve their
questions) they are inevitably rewarded by having mastered an extremely
powerful and productive language"

being a very creative person doesn't give you permission to be a jerk and
its also a pretty dumb way to behave if you want to sell  a new language.
[go to talk to stephen wolfram about mathematica someday. he treats ALL
questions and questioners (even idiots)  respectfully.

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well,  i'm not particularly ashamed, except for not saying  'quit
lecturing me and just send me the damned product' at the time.

 but i shouldn't have wasted the bandwidth or the group's reading time.
sorry about that.
