Re: Java is slower than C++!

On Jun 10, 9:21 am, Lew <l...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Luc The Perverse skrev:

I'm pretty sure the last part was a joke - but I don't get it. (And
somehow I don't think searching google for "go" is going to help)

Go, Weiqi, Baduk - the best board game ever invented.

You cannot gain respect in Asia ignorant of this game, in the way you cannot
gain respect in America ignorant of golf.

*sputter* You can too. In intellectual circles, you can't gain respect
in Asia ignorant of Go, or in America ignorant of chess, perhaps. But
golf?!

You need to improve your Google-fu - it is not hard to add qualifying words to
your search, as in "Go board game".

Given that the person in question didn't know I was referring to Go-
the-board-game, why exactly would it have ever occurred to him to use
"board game" in his search query? :)

I'm afraid I must find for the question-asker here: given that he was
unfamiliar with that usage of the word "Go" (arguably surprising, but
not an indictable offense), and given that there were no real hints at
qualifying terms to add to the query (chess being mentioned could
suggest "board game", but code optimization being mentioned could
suggest "compiler" or even, ObTopic, "java", instead), and given that
Google queries of short, common English words without qualifying terms
will tend to be a crapshoot at best (specific known exceptions
notwithstanding), I'd say he did the right thing in asking me to
clarify what I meant.

And if I'd gotten to it before anyone else had done so I'd have
answered him, honestly and unsnarkily.

that link was the second major hit.

And who would have guessed that, without prior knowledge? Not the
question-asker and not I.

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