RE: Originality
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- Subject: [mg29501] RE: [mg29482] Originality
- From: "Annetts, David (DEM, North Ryde)" <David.Annetts at syd.dem.csiro.au>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2001 01:46:46 -0400 (EDT)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Hi Orestis, <snippage> In the main, I disagree with your interpretation on the newsgroup's response to some questions by newbies. In over 6 years subscribing to this newsgroup / list, I have rarely seen newbies "beaten to a pulp". The worst I've seen, is various forms of RTFM, whether the FM be The Book, or WRI's archives / tutorials. If you want to see vitriol and sarcasm as a reponse to a query, check out some of the other newsgroups:) What I tend to see more often, is people (they know who they are) trying to outdo each other in an attempt to find a faster, more elegent solution to the problem at hand. Thankfully, these solutions are shared with the group, because as you say, the learning curve is a bitch:) <snippage of some well thought out ideas -- purely to save bandwidth> > Handle it with care please...if some people didn't pursuit > their "foolish" > dreams, we would all be talking in the FORTRAN2K forum now. Some of us still are:) It's a matter of hourses for courses. In my case, Fortran for the number crunching, Mathematica for the processing and pictures. Regards, Dave. ------------------------------- David Annetts EM Modelling Analyst CSIRO DEM, North Ryde Tel: (+612) 9490 5416 Fax: (+612) 9490 5467 Include "usual_disclaimers" -------------------------------