I like your analogy, Matthew. My guess about the hostility is that once someone has invested a lot of time and effort into learning a way to do things, he doesn't want to hear there's a much better way but it will require him to abandon most of his hard-won skills.
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 5:23 AM, Matthew Brand <[email protected]>wrote: > I have found programmers to be extremely hostile to J. I do not know > where that comes from. It is very strange. > > It is like sitting next to a man almost dying of thirst who has only a > moist sponge to suck on and you offer him a glass of water, but he > ... > -- Devon McCormick, CFA ^me^ at acm. org is my preferred e-mail ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
