2008/6/9 Hahn, Harvey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> |BegQ?
> |Is it way of saying that my question is more important than other?
>
> I've been using "BegQ" as an abbreviated ("terse" ;) ) form of "Beginner
> Question". In a sense, it's actually a way of saying that my question
> is *LESS* important than other, more "professional" questions that
> appear here.
>
I think that Beginner Question is the most important and I am pretty sure
most/all of us think so too
>
> |Otherwise the subject is well-written, and should perfectly
> |suffice the purpose without embelishment.
>
> When I first started asking "beginner" questions here, I got responses
> that were the equivalent of "RTFM" in both content and tone, which
That is most unfortunate and I am sure itis not intended to be so
>
> almost gave the impression that I shouldn't be asking my questions.
Please do ask your questions
>
> (However, as I've stated several times, J's documentation is great for
> those in the know but leaves MUCH to be desired when it comes to
It may well be so and it takes a lot of time to learn to read the
documentation.
You will be highly rewarded when you do begin to understandit.
>
> newbies.) However, because I needed to know (and there is no other
> "live" avenue of discourse, unless someone like NYCJUG would open
I myself would love to be ablke to visit NYCJUG and/or have something
similar in my neighborhood
>
> themselves to emailed beginner questions), I persisted--but chose to
> alert readers who might want to skip over my questions because these
> might be beneath their interest level or what they feel is appropriate
> for the forum. If the forum feels that "BegQ" is an unnecessary alert
> on my part, I'm perfectly happy not to use it. ;)
>
Then again even after a number of years we are more or less all beginners.
Is it not fun to have so much in front of us to learn?
I very much like to read the beginner questions and love to contribute ifI
can.
It is sometimes scary how far some others have drifted into the woods of J
competence.
We will eventually get there or not.
Who cares lets just enjoy it as much as we can.
Feel free to ask as much as you can there are a lots of us out there who
like to help and/or learn too.
>
> Harvey
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