Re: back on topic... Re: [OS:N:] bash intro for high school students?

[Jeff Kinz <jkinz kinz org>]

On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 09:01:26PM -0400, Brian Wiese wrote:
I'm sorry Brian, I hadn't noticed your reply here until just now.

Did you produce any counter points to the points I made?  No.

You quoted an entire email thread and then just pronounced a subjective
judgment on the whole thing without responding to anything in thread
itself except for things that you imagined or misinterpreted.

An email thread is an online discussion.  It should be based primarily
on point and counter point. (hopefully logic based. ;-) ) 

When making a counter-point make sure that you are responding to
something that was actually said.  Making up something and then claiming
that the other person said it is, and always has been sleazy. 

Your defense of Jay when he does this smears you just as heavily as it
does him.  It means you either did not actually read what was written (A
possibility if a person is just skimming), or you are actually trying
to assist him with the effort.

Remember Jay said:
> >On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 08:33:48AM -0700, Jay Scherrer wrote:
> >>Jeff,
> >>I don't know why you are so adamant against Perl? 

Please if you can find anywhere in this thread where I took a position 
that Perl was bad let me know.
..
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Just to shorten this I'll delete the 170 lines you didn't say anything
in
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> 
> I found your comments a bit harsh, childish 
No, simply being direct and humorous to make sure there is no sting in
it.  

> and off topic.  
Actually  that's what you seem to be having trouble with here.


>I thought Jay put it quite nicely in asking "why are you so adamant against Perl?" -- to which you replied another near 50 lines (and quoted lines) again in what I felt to be a harsh, childish, and off topic manner by turning the thread into your own critical rant, with closing attempt to get "the last word in".

I'm sorry you feel that way Brian.  But everything you've said above is
totally subjective.  Clearly we will always be of two minds about the
use of humor in an email thread.

I hope you get a chance to experience more of the world soon.


-- 
Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA.
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