Dimensioned Arrays

[Brian K. White]

On 4/19/2011 8:13 PM, smittyusn1 at bellsouth.net wrote:
> Maybe more people would pose questions on this list if they didn't judged by
> the exalted points master.   I posted it here 3 times that only one element
> of my new array was being filled in.  Could be you missed that part.
>
> Maybe Laura Brody would post her fix here with an explanation that will meet
> with your approval.
>
> Wayne Smith
> Port Orange, Florida

Maybe more people would bother to answer questions that made any sense 
whatsoever.

Maybe Laura's explanation will make us fall off our chairs laughing at 
how little the actual issue had to do with anything you said. She's 
probably too nice to subject you to it.

The only reason you got a useful response at all is just because Ken is 
frankly a saint. I don't know why he bothers.

Starting right with the very first term in the subject, before we even 
get into one line of the body of the first post. What the heck is a 
"dimensioned array"? It's a meaningless term. All arrays are 
dimensioned. It's like saying "boards with lengths".

Then there is the fact that nothing in that post had anything to do with 
arrays other than that in loose general terms, associated fields, which 
you did talk about, happen to be a form of array. It's not reasonable to 
fault anyone for being confused though because in the context of fp, 
which is clearly the context here, there is actually an entirely 
different feature specifically called arrays which you made no mention of.

You can speak meaningless gibberish like that if you can't help it, and 
if someone happens to be so saintly nice that they're willing to try to 
help anyways, that's nice. Neither of those are automatically a problem. 
But you don't get to speak meaningless gibberish like that and then 
criticize anyone else for either not helping or demanding clarification 
in order to make helping even possible, nor do you get to paint your 
ignorance as a virtue and criticize anyone else for not sharing it.

Also just a tip, I wouldn't exactly brag about being one of "those" 
kids, nor at how long it took to realize. You really didn't grasp that 
the world is basically made of math by 1st or 2nd grade? Certainly long 
before basic algebra came along in 5th grade, let alone 10th holy cow.

-- 
bkw



>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jean-Pierre A. Radley
> Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2011 6:57 PM
> To: FilePro Mailing List
> Subject: Re: Dimensioned Arrays
>
> smittyusn1 at bellsouth.net propounded (on Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at
> 01:11:40PM -0400):
> | From: Kenneth Brody
> |
> | On 4/19/2011 12:49 PM, smittyusn1 at bellsouth.net wrote:
> |>  It needs to be said here......  Laura Brody is a genius ...she used
> |>  technology to login to my CPU and I showed her the problem on the
> screen,
> |>  she caught right on ....  BAM  she figured it out ..  kahhh cheeeng  ..
> I
> |>  have never been so in luv with filePro.
> |
> | And the problem was...???
> |
> | --
> | Kenneth Brody
>
> | The problem was communications   ...  as it usually is.    I was able to
> | impart to Laura Brody in a easy phone call and  on my screen the exact
> | problem,  processing screen and a screen with a sample screen.   I am
> always
> | awed by fp's power.
> |
> | Dimensioned arrays are one of the most powerful fp tools.   An
> | understatement if there ever was one.  I told my math teacher in the 10th
> | grade ..."Whos gonna ever need this  algebra (sh_t)stuff"  BAM!!  53 years
> | later ....its painful remembering those words.
> |
> |
> | Wayne Smith
>
> Ken asked you many direct questions, none of which you ever clearly
> answered. This latest reply, instead of answering a fairly simple
> request (what were your filePro issues?) addresses a question that
> hasn't been asked (what was the problem on this thread?).
>
> I give you credit for saying it was a communications problem, but I
> subtract points for not admitting it was entirely yours. No surprise:
> to my best recollection, your postings to this mailing list stand out
> for their obscurity, not to say obfuscation.
>