incompetent linux tutoring ?

Most of you can ride a bicycle, but very few know how to
ride a bicycle. That's not how serious computing should be.

Linux tutors need to move away from the US-arty-style
towards the European-scientific-style.

Decades back, my german tutor criticised me for not
giving a fluent, colloquial ENGLISH translation of the
German text. He was wrong, since English is my first
language, I was not seeking tution is 'slick English'.

Like the sed translation/explanation below, there are
often multiple transaltion stages. And the final slick
english is the least valuable. But since society [especially
US] emphasizes(?sp) the 'slick final product', the more
important/difficult stages are trivialized.

Translation from eg. german to english needs [at least]
2 stages:
1. translating the german words to english words,
2. translating the english words to standard english form.

The author of the following text is a normal [ass]: ----
An address range followed by one or more operations may require
open and closed curly brackets, with appropriate newlines.
line-1: /[0-9A-Za-z]/,/^$/{
line-2: /^$/d
line-3: }
This deletes only the first of each set of consecutive blank lines.
That might be useful for single-spacing a text file, but retaining the
blank line(s) between paragraphs.
-------
OK, so apparently:
/[0-9A-Za-z]/, = the address range, including ","
<the address range> = Lines of alfanums
^ = <start of line>
$ = <end of line> therefore
^$ = <blank line> and
<adr-range> <Comma> /^$/d = for adr-range,
blank lines, delete = Delete, blank line,
for adr-range.

Q1. So how does the example comply with the above
syntax, re. 2 times "/<expresn>/" before "d" ?

Q2. why is the opening-curly-bracket followed by a new-line ?

Thanks for any feedback,

== Chris Glur.

On 2008-04-21, problems@gmail <problems@gmail> wrote:

> Most of you can ride a bicycle, but very few know how to
> ride a bicycle.

I don't get it. How can one ride a bicycle if one doesn't know
how to ride a bicycle.

> That's not how serious computing should be.

Huh?

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On 2008-04-21, problems@gmail <problems@gmail> wrote:
> Most of you can ride a bicycle, but very few know how to
> ride a bicycle. That's not how serious computing should be.
>
> Linux tutors need to move away from the US-arty-style
> towards the European-scientific-style.

ACtually I have a firm belief in the underlying ethos of Linux which
is to "Have Fun!".

Andrew

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On Sun, 20 Apr 2008 19:35:44 -0500, problems wrote:

> Most of you can ride a bicycle, but very few know how to
> ride a bicycle. That's not how serious computing should be.

Fuck off, troll.


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