Talk:Andrew Tridgell

message: I don't think he speaks "every language known to man and aliens", so i changed the statement back to the one that looks most sensible, but I left the citation needed. Not used to wikipedia, so hope i didn't do anything terrible wrong. 84.202.199.164 (talk) 02:09, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Speaking languages 

message: because it doesn't exsist. Bawolff 03:33, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removed pict 

message: Does anyone have a document to cite to confirm that Gosling is an Emacs user?  Thanks. Gronky 01:14, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: "I use Emacs" quote anyone?

message: Is Andrew Swedish or is his wife Swedish? On page 3 of his ph.d thesis it says: "Till min kära fru, Susan" --Ysangkok (talk) 21:12, 19 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: People's self-assessment of their language abilities is often waaaaaaayyy too generous.  A possible proof would be if he gave a presentation in the language or if there's a public mailing list on which he's held conversations in the language. Gronky (talk) 04:29, 26 March 2010 (UTC)

text: When I learned my first new language as an adult, after a bit more than a year I rated my ability at "half-way there".  Two years of lessons later, having made massive progress, I gave my ability the same rating.  When you haven't done it, you really underestimate how much learning is required to learn a language.  It's very easy to think you know a language or have a good level of a language.  Writing a paper in that language is another thing altogether.  The effort required is very approximately that you have to make it either the number 2 or 3 priority in your life for about five years. Gronky (talk) 08:03, 26 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Swedish? 

message: Why does a Wikipedia editor think that this phrase needs a citation?
   "something that, seemingly, no-one else had previously thought to try"
The line is in the last sentence under the "Projects" subsection. Using the word "seemingly" is an adequate modifier. I think the editor will agree if he/she reads the sentence more carefully or looks up "seemingly" in a dictionary. For those of us who actually read footnotes, the excessive use of "citation needed" in Wikipedia is a bit wearing.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.128.183.42 (talk) 02:45, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I'd say that, at best, "seemingly" makes this line unencyclopedic. Not only that, it doesn't take much thought to realise it's also wrong - clearly at least one person had "thought to try" - namely whoever implemented the "HELP" command... Given that, I'd suggest the sentence should end at "HELP." DrVxD (talk) 01:03, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Citation Needed" White Noise 

message: He doesn't currently work for IBM: http://www.ibm.com/contact/employees/us/en/ --EnOreg (talk) 21:02, 2 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not with IBM anymore 

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