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Oliver Wong
Roedy Green said:Then you too should drop out of computer science and take up the art
of twisting the truth for profit, namely corporate law. Both of you
are just playing silly word games.
http://mindprod.com/jgloss/newsgroups.html#GIFTHORSE
My intent was to provide some constructive criticism. I apologize if I
was too subtle in my efforts. Here's the sequence of events, and the
rational for my actions from my perspective:
You wrote an essay about the difference between C++ and Java.
Pep pointed out some problems with the statement "Java is platform
independent".
You dismissed Pep's point.
I agree with the Pep's point, and wanted to indicate that he was not the
only person to feel that the statement has some problems, which leads to the
possibility that other people may feel the same way too, but chose not to
post about it.
I (subtly?) ended my post with the advice of "consider your audience".
This is difficult in your (Roedy's) case, because the MindProd site is
oriented towards people with a technical background in Java, but to the
"newbie" segment of that population, so it is somewhat of a grey area
whether the essay should strive for technical correctness versus ease of
understanding. If I were faced with the same problem, I'd give the "easy to
understand" explanation first, with notes that there may be some technical
problems with it, and a link (perhaps as a footnote) to the more complex,
but technically correct answer.
In the end, it's your site, and your essay, so you can write whatever
you want. I had (perhaps incorrectly) assumed you were looking for some
feedback.
- Oliver