Re: Replace and ReplaceAll -- simple application
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- Subject: [mg106063] Re: Replace and ReplaceAll -- simple application
- From: DrMajorBob <btreat1 at austin.rr.com>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2009 03:19:03 -0500 (EST)
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[I doubt Steve is interested in all this, and he certainly won't post it... but here goes.] I think Andrzej's post (rant?) is overstated... but largely in style, not substance. I complain (rant?) quite a bit myself, but I also answer a lot of questions. I give VERY substantial offline assistance at times (sometimes without an initial post to the group), and I try to contribute positives, in general, in terms of coding style and responsiveness to beginning users. I help people understand Mathematica, whenever I can. I fully admit that Mathematica is better documented than most or all software I've worked with, despite my sometimes harsh assessment of Help deficiencies. I get annoyed at having to figure things out the hard way, and if that's what it is, that's what I call it. I sound more critical than I really am, but I have no patience for hints hidden somewhere in the docs. I want solid information, easily found. Andrzej contributes far more to the group than I do, in some ways at least, and he rarely critiques anything but outright "bugs", both of which speak well of him. I agree with Andrzej that some complainers don't contribute much to balance their criticism, but I don't believe I'm in that group. I fit, I hope, well into the middle ground between Andrzej and RJF. I also agree that most of my gripes (and many of the gripes of others) have little to do with getting things done; Andrzej ignores problems that don't matter in practice, as well he should. I frequently have to remind myself to do the same, and when I forget... there's always Andrzej! Bobby On Wed, 30 Dec 2009 17:06:30 -0600, Andrzej Kozlowski <akoz at mimuw.edu.pl> wrote: > > On 31 Dec 2009, at 02:18, Richard Fateman wrote: > >> Andrzej Kozlowski wrote: >>> What I find kind of impressive is that there are people who find it >>> amusing to keep posting essentially the same posts for about two >>> decades and this despite the fact that they are being completely >>> ignored by the developers (and there is no reason to think that >>> anything will ever change in this respect). Masochism? >> >> No, I think it is not masochism. >> It is an attempt to provide a useful to answer questions that come up >> from time to time from people who would otherwise dismiss a CAS as >> useless and stupid bedause they find unexplainable (to them) behavior. > > Useful? Funny you should mention that. "Dismiss as useless and stupid"? > Its only you that keeps doing that. A remarkable example of the purest > hypocrisy. > > Do you really think you have ever posted anything that would be useful > to anyone on this forum it its entire history? Everything you have > posted over the years can be quite fairly summarised as the following > advice to new and naive users : Mathematica is full of "bugs", and > other evil and perverse things, and worse, was created by a guy whose > guts I hate, so give it up and use instead my own favourite CAS, which > years ago I helped to make. Oh, and don't mind that it is practically > defunct and useless nowadays. >> >> >>> I try to move with the times so what concerns me is that my Front End >>> is crashing too often. >> >> Maybe you should tie your shoelaces? >> > > Well, this comment just shows typical shallowness of thinking and lack > of knowledge and well as manners. > Has it ever occurred to you that here (in Japan) people generally do not > use shoelaces? > > Andrzej Kozlowski -- DrMajorBob at yahoo.com
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- Replace and ReplaceAll -- simple application
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- Replace and ReplaceAll -- simple application