Ruby's Greek Thread

[bi3mw]

Then, there are quite a few people who believe that everything that has been written is best ignored anyway, for several quite interesting reasons.

I must admit that I can sometimes understand these people. It is almost an art to distinguish carefully elaborated, well-founded papers from irrelevant thesis papers. It's not as if abstruse theories have no scope, and that goes for written elaborations as well. It can take a lot of time and effort to work through such papers, only to find that one is dealing with wild speculation and false conclusions. There are plenty of examples of this. Over time, a kind of "data ballast" accumulates in the mind and a kind of longing arises to deal with the VMS "from scratch", free of all kinds of theories.