[orangeeater]

> One should not feel embarrassed for not knowing something and then asking more in order to learn.

Agreed: ignorance is not embarrassing. We're all ignorant about most things.

But it is embarrassing to say something like "why'd they name iota after a Greek letter? To seem smart?" As this article explains, there is a history there and it doesn't have anything to do with "seeming smart".

I didn't know the history of "iota". I'm only vaguely familiar with APL. And I've never listened to a Turning Award lecture. This makes me ignorant. But I also didn't criticize this feature from my place of ignorance because I'm aware of it. Had I done so, it would be embarrassing.

I have criticized things from ignorance in the past, and it was embarrassing.