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From: Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com>
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Subject: Re: transpiling to low level C
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Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> writes:

> On 22.12.2024 02:04, Michael S wrote:
>
>>> [...]
>>
>> Part of the answer is in your previous response.
>> You wrote:  "many _good_ professors I met in my life typically were
>> keen to explain their theses, statements, or knowledge (instead of
>> dragging that out of him)".  You essentially admitted that not all good
>> professors behave like that.
>
> Oh, what I meant to express was different;  that good professors
> *would* explain it (only bad ones wouldn't).
>
> (At least that was my experience;  and not only covering the CS
> domain, BTW.)
>
>> [ "schools of teaching" stuff snipped ]
>>
>> You make an impression of one that received basics of CS.  Probably, 40
>> or so years ago, but still you have to know basic facts.  Unlike me, for
>> example.
>> So, Tim expects that you will be able to utilizes his hints.
>
> The point [repeatedly] stated (also by others here) was that
> he more often than not just provides no information but simple
> arbitrary statements of opinion.

The comments I made here, in two responses to postings of yours,
were not statements of opinion but statements of fact.  They are
no more statements of opinion than a statement about whether the
Riemann Hypothesis is true is a statement of opinion.  Someone
might wonder whether an assertion "The Riemann Hypothesis is
true" is true or false, but it is still a matter of fact, not a
matter of opinion.