Re: professor david c ullrich finally delivers the sword to galathaea (with long wistful meanderings)

Angus Rodgers wrote:
On Mon, 1 Dec 2008 21:52:31 -0800 (PST), galathaea
<galathaea@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

it is pretty cool to come out with your own book
i am sure it was extremely irritating
to have me attack it in my backhanded way

and in the process
i accused you of not knowing what you were talking about

sort of

well no
not actually
(the pedant will note)
i had all these clauses that tied relationships
between what personality i could predict
through online interaction
and content i had never seen
(which i admitted)

Now the least you can do is buy a copy, and have fun pointing out all the errors. ;-)

i already ordered my copy
but i have no intentions of coming out here to post anything i find

when i find errors in book
i just fix them with an annotation or something

almost all books have errors in them

things need to be done sloppy first
just to get the job done

if there is a design or clearly seen path
the sloppy will at least be workable

then refactoring can fix things up
and hopefully steady review removes most major errors

but it's not good engineering to strive for perfection the first pass
and i can't hold david up to some standard i could never achieve

one of my dearest little books
cayley's "elementary treatise on elliptic functions"
is full of corrections to the various formulae
and is one of my most corrected books

i still love it and it's flow


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