Re: How to get into Scientific Programming

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Baruch Vainas wrote:

> "William" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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>>My statement [W] is not equivalent to your statement [B] and
>> wasn't intended to be; it refutes it.
> 
> OK, my choice of the word "equivalent" wasn't the best one. It was
> meant to say, how your "often find themselves not teaching" relates,
> or using your own terminology, "addresses", my  "will be asked to do
> some more teaching". How on earth it refutes it? You just say
> something different to what I say, WITHOUT JUSTIFYING why my
> statement, according to what you say is, supposedly, wrong. That isn't
> refutation, it is just pontification.

Let's give the guy some credit here. It's not /just/ pontification. It's 
pontification!

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