Re: New Science Discovery: Perl Detractors Remain Idiots After A Decade

2012-03-12 Thread Raymond Wiker
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz writes: > In , on 03/12/2012 >at 11:27 AM, Albert van der Horst said: > >>You're confused. > > No, s/h/it is just an acephalic troll with delusions of adequacy. Another way to put it is to say that Xah is a legend in his own mind. -- http://mail.python.or

Re: New Science Discovery: Perl Detractors Remain Idiots After A Decade

2012-03-12 Thread Seymour J.
In , on 03/12/2012 at 11:27 AM, Albert van der Horst said: >You're confused. No, s/h/it is just an acephalic troll with delusions of adequacy. >"left-associativity" and "right-associativity" are computer >languages concept and their definitions are not from mathematics. Don't confuse the go

Re: New Science Discovery: Perl Detractors Remain Idiots After A Decade!

2012-03-02 Thread Chiron
On Fri, 02 Mar 2012 10:53:30 -0500, Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz wrote: > In , on 03/02/2012 >at 02:17 PM, Chiron said: > >>What always gets me is how so many people criticized Sokal for doing it, > > Google for Omerta. It's common for whistle blowers to be chastised or > even persecuted. I agr

Re: New Science Discovery: Perl Detractors Remain Idiots After A Decade!

2012-03-02 Thread Seymour J.
In , on 03/02/2012 at 02:17 PM, Chiron said: >What always gets me is how so many people criticized Sokal for doing >it, Google for Omerta. It's common for whistle blowers to be chastised or even persecuted. I agree that the criticism of Prof Sokal was outrageous, but it was also predictable.