16 Sep
2019
16 Sep
'19
2:50 a.m.
On Sun, Sep 15, 2019 at 06:17:04PM -0700, Stephen Satchell wrote:
I don't know about others, but when I run into the same situation, instead of saying "just Google it" I provide a few links to get the asker a start.
Who said "just Google it"?
Back in the beginning, before the Internet, before ARPAnet, I would provide a few references for the person on a quest to look up in the library. Working on the theory that "give a person a fish, they eat for a day; teach them to fish and they eat forever."
Something like mentioning not one but two string similarity algorithms by name, stating that there are many others, and providing a link to get started? What a good idea, if only I had thought of doing something like that... -- Steven