On 2019-11-21 16:48:14 +0000, Geoff Winkless wrote: > On Thu, 21 Nov 2019 at 15:32, Peter J. Holzer <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 2019-11-21 09:43:26 +0000, Geoff Winkless wrote: > > > It wasn't meant to be insulting, I meant "esoteric" in the strict > > > sense: that you need to have specific knowledge to parse them. > > > > I didn't understand it as insulting (why would I?), > > I've absolutely no idea, but I couldn't imagine why on Earth you would > apparently take such exception to it otherwise. Maybe writing > sarcastic bombast in response to something that hasn't annoyed you is
I don't think we agree on the meaning of "sarcastic" and "bombast".
> > but don't think this convention is "requiring ... knowledge that is
> > restricted to a small group" (Merriam-Webster).
>
> That's entirely the case here. I'd say the number of people able to
> understand something like BNF is vanishingly small in terms of the
> 7bn(?) world-population.
The number of people reading the PostgreSQL manual is also vanishingly
small in terms of the world-population. These two aren't independent.
hp
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