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Originally Posted by mdp
But Exploration is otium and Exploitation is work, so if somebody comes and ask for that one Java text praised by Gosling it cannot be dreamed that he can be served or proposed a different text, especially not one about Python or C, and especially not a book about honey based pastry or a XIX century feuilleton novel, and especially not a car or a cabbage or a chest of drawers. A proper place can serve you what you want/need. Limited collections are for leisure.
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Your example is very specific, but to stick to it, if you are in a store where the clerk is as well versed in Java texts as you are and the clerk is well aware they don't have a copy of James Gosling's preferred book, it is human nature (as well as good business) to try suggesting something they do have in stock.
If I went to a store looking for a copy of Raymond Chandler's The Little Sister, I would far prefer suggestions of other Chandler works or similar authors works that they
do have in stock to a flat 'no'. I would think that clerk that did just say no is an unhelpful jerk.