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Re:R 4.0 by timthorn on Friday April 24, 2020 @07:22AM (#22966816)
To be fair, the announcement was posted to the R-announce mailing list, and it seems probable that subscribers would know what R is.
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Re:R 4.0 by rwmj on Friday April 24, 2020 @07:37AM (#22966889)
But here we are reading it on a general tech news site.
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Re:R 4.0 by gumby on Friday April 24, 2020 @07:46AM (#22966951)
Thats not the fault of the R developers who wrote a message appropriate for the audience to which they sent it.
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Re:R 4.0 by rwmj on Friday April 24, 2020 @07:50AM (#22966977)
And they never imagined that the announcement of a major release of a popular piece of software would go beyond the mailing list?
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Re:R 4.0 by touktouk on Friday April 24, 2020 @08:08AM (#22967082)
Should every message be written with all possible audiences in mind?
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Re:R 4.0 by rwmj on Friday April 24, 2020 @09:34AM (#22967757)
It's lucky I never said that because obviously that would be stupid. However the release of a major version of a popular piece of software should be expected to go beyond the mailing list - and guess what, it being on the front page of HN all morning proves that exact point.
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