Re: What databases have taught me

Cimode wrote:
> Marshall wrote:
> > Cimode wrote:
> > > LOL!!!
> > > I have to add that beautiful comment to Keith Duggar's FEW .
> > > > > Keith H Duggar wrote:
> > > > > I am not sure value is a concept that has meaning in pure mathematics.
> >
> > As an attempt at character assasination, this would be more
> > effective if:
> character assasination is not gentle mockery...I will expose every
> nonsense I will read including BB's
>
> > 1) Keith had actually said it, and
> But you are right I misread the thread..Apologies to mister Duggar
> (corrected in the FEW)
>
> > 2) The person who *did* say it hadn't immediately corrected himself.
> Correction happened AFTER I exposed...

Bob made the original sentence you object to in this post:

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.object/msg/74f72a90ef0c9a6a

His retraction was in this post:

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.object/msg/fcce0ff5e3f2997e

Anyone is free to check the times of the two messages, and verify that they are only six minutes apart. Anyone is also free to check this search link:

http://groups.google.com/groups?as_q=&num=10&scoring=r&hl=en&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_ugroup=comp.databases.theory&as_usubject=&as_uauthors=Cimode&lr=&as_qdr=&as_drrb=b&as_mind=1&as_minm=7&as_miny=2006&as_maxd=1&as_maxm=7&as_maxy=2006&safe=off

and see that you made only one, unrelated post that day, hours earlier.

So your claim that "Correction happened AFTER I exposed" is incorrect.

Furthermore in context it was clear that Bob was referring to "value" in the sense of "cost, worth, expense" responding the earlier use of the word "valuable", rather than the mathematical sense of "amount, element of a set."

Marshall Received on Mon Jul 03 2006 - 23:26:41 CEST