From: Kreeg on
To be fair, T puts out an impressive volume of nonsense in a lot of
different threads. You can't reasonably expect him to keep track of the
nonsense that he said in the past in addition to the nonsense that he's
currently saying. I mean, come on!

;-)

ggroups(a)bigfoot.com wrote:
> On Feb 8, 8:49 pm, "topmind" <topm...(a)technologist.com> wrote:
>
>> ggro...(a)bigfoot.com wrote:
>
>>> The first thing I will put on record is your convenient omission of
>>> your claim
>>> about what the OP wrote. It is therefore fair IMHO to assume that the
>>> following is true (as I stated) :
>
>>> you started your usual deluded tree rubbish
>>> - the OP responded to inform you they are talking about graphs
>>> - you made a claim about what the OP wrote, which is shown to be untrue
>
>> I did NOT bring up hierarchies. The opening posting brought it up.
>> Thus, your implication that I "saw" hierarchies were none were
>> described nor mentioned is wrong.
>
> I will summarise for posterity (as google etc have the details on
> every posting
> made for this thread) :

*SNIP*

>
> So as far as Usenet goes, you display the traits of a disingenuous,
> cowardly liar.
>
> It is bad enough that you are unable to construct a succinct cogent
> debate to
> argue your point (which actually has some merit) . But to expect
> comp.object to
> endure both that and your unsavoury traits is *not on* .
>
>
> Regards,
> Steven Perryman
>
From: Kreeg on
Actually (according to Wikipedia, at least ;-) ), it looks like a tree
is a hierarchy, but a hierarchy is not a tree. DAG and tree are both
subclasses, if you will, of hierarchy.

To borrow a comparison from elementary school math :
hierachy is to rectangle, as tree is to square.

Most of the time people (myself included) equate them with the same
thing, though.

topmind wrote:
> On Feb 15, 7:46 pm, "S Perryman" <a...(a)a.net> wrote:
>> "topmind" <topm...(a)technologist.com> wrote in message
>>
>> news:1171563102.133207.152240(a)l53g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>>
>>
>>
>>> S Perryman wrote:
>>>> You apparently have some serious mental defect.
>>>> To spell it out to you (in 'according to Google' speak) ...
>>>> #1. The OP did *NOT USE the terms "tree" , "classification tree" or *any
>>>> other text with the word tree in it (the *1st message in the entire topic
>>>> thread.
>>> Here is a copy of the first message of the topic (as google shows it):
****SNIP*****
>>> multiple times:
>>> "hierarchical categories by topic"
>>> "hierarchical categories by topic"
>>> "hierarchical categories by topic"
>>> "hierarchical categories by topic"
>> ROTFLMAO !!! :-)
>>
>> http://www.onelook.com/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/bware/dofind.cgi?word=hierarchy
>>
>> What, no mention of the word "tree" !!??
>> You obviously haven't broken your shovel yet, have you.
>
> Are you really that stupid? "hierarchy" and tree are the same goddam
> thing!!!!
>
> Jeeeeez! Get some f8cking education.
>
>> Deluded yourself as to what someone explicitly wrote in a Usenet posting.
>> And now you have deluded yourself as to the meaning of a word in
>> the English language.
>>
>> So :
>>
>> 1. As Usenet goes, you are still a cowardly, disingenuous liar.
>> 2.IMHO you need to seek medical assistance regarding the delusions you
>> appear to have.
>>
>> IMHO many on comp.object could accept 2 being (most/all of) the reason
>> for 1 (and your normal obsessive rantings) .
>>
>> Regards,
>> Steven Perryman
>
> -T-
>
From: Jeff Brooks on
> He cannot construct a cogent argument. He has deluded himself into what OO
> is all about, and cannot debate on anything other than the delusion. And when
> he cannot support his claims, he has to be repeatedly hounded into a corner
> like vermin in order to get a retraction, or is disingenuous to the degree that he
> will even re-invent the English language (hence my reference to the Cheshire Cat
> from Alice in wonderland).
- Steven Perryman

"A lie is a statement made by someone who believes or suspects it to be
false, in the expectation that the hearers may believe it."
- http://www.google.com/search?q=define:lie

I don't think that topmind lied. He honestly doesn't understand OO and
his comments reflect that.

Topmind's posts are an act of ignorance, not malice.

Jeff Brooks
From: Jeff Brooks on
Lol, I quoted the wrong text.

I should have quoted this:
> You a liar because you made a claim that the OP *explicitly mentioned
> terms such as "tree" , "classification tree" * . They did not. You deluded
> yourself, so you then went into your perennial delusion about OO :
> OO = trees.
- Steven Perryman

Then my quote from google makes sense! Mental note to self, read message
before posting next time!)

Jeff Brooks

Jeff Brooks wrote:
>> He cannot construct a cogent argument. He has deluded himself into
>> what OO
>> is all about, and cannot debate on anything other than the delusion.
>> And when
>> he cannot support his claims, he has to be repeatedly hounded into a
>> corner
>> like vermin in order to get a retraction, or is disingenuous to the
>> degree that he
>> will even re-invent the English language (hence my reference to the
>> Cheshire Cat
>> from Alice in wonderland).
> - Steven Perryman
>
> "A lie is a statement made by someone who believes or suspects it to be
> false, in the expectation that the hearers may believe it."
> - http://www.google.com/search?q=define:lie
>
> I don't think that topmind lied. He honestly doesn't understand OO and
> his comments reflect that.
>
> Topmind's posts are an act of ignorance, not malice.
>
> Jeff Brooks
From: Bjorn Reese on
topmind wrote:

> I've never seen "hierarchy" used to talk about anything other than
> trees, and m-w.com does not seem to describe any non-tree "hierarchy".
> It appears to have a religious origin, not a mathematical one, and
> thus is not well-suited for technical decisions anyhow.

Quote from http://www.isss.org/hierarchy.htm

"Hierarchy: in mathematical terms, it is a partially ordered set. In
less austere terms, a hierarchy is a collection of parts with ordered
asymmetric relationships inside a whole. That is to say, upper levels
are above lower levels, and the relationship upwards is asymmetric with
the relationships downwards."

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