Re: Re: Opinions / Votes Needed

"Skip Evans" <skip@bigskypenguin.com> wrote in message news:49733D18.6080008@bigskypenguin.com... >I will be brief. Tony is a dick. To quote your own words: "There's just no need to insult other list members like this." -- Tony Marston http://www.tonymarston.net http://www.radicore.org > Peace & Love, > Skip > > Tony Marston wrote: >> "Skip Evans" <skip@bigskypenguin.com> wrote in message >> news:49723137.2010202@bigskypenguin.com... >>> Wow, Tony, do you think in the future you could try to express yourself >>> with just a bit more civility and in a less condescending tone? >>> >>> Nathan expressed some thoughts he had, politely, and when out of his way >>> to come across in a non-critical and non-confrontational manner. >>> >>> Tony Marston wrote: >>>> Absolute rubbish! >>> There's just no need to insult other list members like this. >> >> Saying that someone's ideas are absolute rubbish is not an insult. >> Calling him a moron would be, but I did not. >> >>> Frankly, it's this kind of treatment that make these lists less >>> productive than they could be. >> >> And you think that his ideas for changing PHP to suit his particular >> programming style would be productive? I think not. >> >>> It intimidates less experienced programmers from asking good questions, >> >> What makes you think that he is an inexperienced programmer? What makes >> you think that these are good questions? He is saying that he doesn't >> like the way that PHP works and wants it changed to suit his personal >> needs. >> >>> lest they get treated the way Nathan was. And isn't helping out less >>> experienced coders one of the reasons this list exists? >>> >>> And it also makes others less inclined to participate, or drop off the >>> list entirely. >> >> If it stops feeble minded people from filling this forum with useless >> requests then surely that's a good thing? Personally I'm sick and tired >> from reading posts such as this which say "I'm used to language X, and my >> feeble brain cannot cope with the differences, so why can't PHP be >> changed to behave like language X?" >> >>> It's NOT just so we can blast each other and show off our highly >>> dubiously assumed superiority. >>> >>> With all the frustrations we put up with in our daily lives, I would >>> hope a list like this, especially since we are among colleagues, could >>> be a place we could at least cautiously expect to be treated with >>> respect. >> >> Then the OP should respect PHP for what it is, and not request changes >> that would make it unusable for 99.999% of the millions of programmers >> who have already written millions of programs with it. PHP is successful >> because of the way it works, and changing the way it works, as suggested >> by the OP, would not make it more successful. On the contrary, I think >> that it would PHuck it up completely. >> >> But that's just my opinion. >> > > -- > ==================================== > Skip Evans > Big Sky Penguin, LLC > 503 S Baldwin St, #1 > Madison WI 53703 > 608.250.2720 > http://bigskypenguin.com > ------------------------------------ > Those of you who believe in > telekinesis, raise my hand. > -- Kurt Vonnegut