"John Lockwood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 12 Aug 2001 22:52:44 GMT, "D'Arcy Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> >From www.dictionary.com:
> >Critical:
> >"Characterized by careful, exact evaluation and judgment: a critical
> >reading."
> Yes, well, it helps to post the definition that supports your argument
> and to ignore the one that doesn't.
It was the best one (also didn't require the searching I'm about to do :-)
> Nevertheless, at the risk of
> being called "uncritical" by not surfing, we both know there's another
> one up there that DOES fit JTK, don't we?
"Inclined to judge severely and find fault"?
Judge: "To form an opinion or estimation of after careful consideration:
judge heights; judging character"
Well JTK didn't judge at all - didn't form an opinion after carefull
consideration - that would be hard to do in this case if you haven't
ever written anything in Java - and JTK admitted that he hasn't (or
at least had not at the time he said) written anything in Java.
You might want to use this meaning of judge:
"To determine or declare after consideration or deliberation."
Well that won't work since JTK didn't provide consideration or
deliberation - he never programmed in Java - how can he have
considered it properly?
This one suits your purpose though:
"Informal. To have as an opinion or assumption; suppose:
I judge you're right."
Of course why would Sun care about JTKs uninformed opinion?
..darcy
