Congratulations on inventing the concept anyway. Personally, I would not have bothered about their rudeness - although I know it's hard to totally ignore such

Congratulations on inventing the concept anyway. Personally, I would not have bothered about their rudeness - although I know it's hard to totally ignore such comments. I would be proud of myself, or at least be happy, for having invented the concept independently, more so if it was well known in computer science, because that indicates it had some utility.