From: David Rush (kumo@gofree.indigo.ie)
Subject: Re: Clinger's sloppiness in his RichterFAQ 
Newsgroups: comp.lang.scheme
Date: 2004-09-01 09:13:30 PST 


richter@math.northwestern.edu (Bill Richter) writes:
> David, if you want to explain how Kevin's +/add stuff says something
> about my semantic function E, which I gave 2 different definitions of,
> please post!  

I *don't* want to explain. You need to learn some basic material on
languages and automata theory. Until you have grasped those fields you
will continue to demonstrate more arrogance than understanding.

Language and Automata theory contain some of the core foundational
principles to the study of programming language semantics.

> I couldn't figure out any relevance of Kevin's (very
> clever) posts to my semantics, which involved a sem function

I know, that's why I'm pointing you to the topics you will need to
study in order to understand the relevance of Kevin's posts. I'm not
going to waste, time, bandwidth, and precious keystrokes (I also
suffer from RSI) trying to teach you something which you don't appear
interested in learning. Indeed, it looks like you have so convinced
yourself of your correctness that you have completely stopped
listening. And while your condescension might be apropriate for the
likes of my own dear self (I have never pretended to be more than a
dilettante at the harder aspects of the math here), your ignorance of
the basics of our field makes you appear to be singularly unqualified
to judge that *you* are right while the likes of Will Clinger and
Matthias Blume are wrong.

In short, your 'pure math' background ain't worth crap. And it's
fooling you into thinking you know more than you do. And if you think
this will help you get a job somewhere, then you need to get a real
life. You're only going to end up looking really stupid.

david rush
-- 
Science explains what is happening around us the whole time. So does
religion, but science is better because it comes up with more
understandable excuses when it's wrong.
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