> The best rejoinder I've heard to the referenced discussion is, > "If I'm so smart, why don't you listen to what I'm telling you?"
I recently saw that in a video of Dick Lathwell, who attributed it Ken Iverson. Ken told me once about the "indefensible attack": Yeah, it [APL] is easy for you; you guys are geniuses. (What are we going to say? No, we are not geniuses? No, it's not easy for us either? ...) Funny that he'd tell me about the attack but not the defense, which would have been "If you think I am so smart, why don't you follow my advice?". ----- Original Message ----- From: Joey K Tuttle <[email protected]> Date: Monday, August 31, 2009 13:49 Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] RosettaCode To: Programming forum <[email protected]> > At 21:32 +0100 2009/08/31, Matthew Brand wrote: > >Someone might want to respond to this: > >http://rosettacode.org/wiki/User_talk:Dkf#Your_discussion_about_J > > > >... or not get involved. > > > > > >2009/8/31 Matthew Brand <[email protected]>: > >> PS I mean new SUBSTANTIAL tasks/examples, I don't mean > to spam the > > > site with lots of silly examples. > > > The best rejoinder I've heard to the referenced discussion is, > "If > I'm so smart, why don't you listen to what I'm telling you?" > > I like your idea in the longer message and think some good > examples > would be the best response to the terseness comment. Knight's > Tour > would be a good one, I imagine there are others. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
