Re: Context, pedantry and appropriate response.

Without we tailor and truncate our answers to the contexts in which the questions are asked, life would become quagmired in a treacle of inferable verbiage. And intolerable.

Quite!

Which is why deliberately obtuse pedantic posts like this deserve the responses they get.

The way forward always starts with a minimal test.

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Re^2: Context, pedantry and appropriate response. by Anonymous Monk on Jan 02, 2016 at 19:17 UTC
Quite! Which is why deliberately obtuse pedantic posts like this deserve the responses they get. So, instead of answering OP directly yourself, its better to interrupt another with "distractions"? Because the other answerer is taking too long? Then "distractions" turn to outright hostility? That doesn't help the OP at all. The perlmonks don't deserve that crap. What weird ego trip are you on	[reply]
Re^2: Context, pedantry and appropriate response. by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Jan 02, 2016 at 18:44 UTC
Which is why deliberately obtuse pedantic posts like this Wrong again! Then and now. I read the post; he was quoting the word process. My reasoning was: if this is a real process, why is he quoting it? If it isn't a process -- a thread or a subroutine -- then why not say that? Far from pedantry; I was seeking clarification. A necessity in order to be able to answer his question because capturing stdout/stderr from a process requires a different solution to capturing them from a thread. Not good at this are you. With the rise and rise of 'Social' network sites: 'Computers are making people easier to use everyday' Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error. "Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority". I knew I was on the right track :) In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice.	[reply]