From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 109fba,99e2dadd49ce1936 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 107d55,99e2dadd49ce1936 X-Google-Attributes: gid107d55,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,99e2dadd49ce1936 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,99e2dadd49ce1936 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Paul A. Houle" Subject: Re: Exception Handling Date: 1996/09/14 Message-ID: <323A92B7.51234AE0@msc.cornell.edu>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 180654236 sender: ph18@cornell.edu (Verified) references: <323750EA.167E@maths.usyd.edu.au> <519bl1$bta@lace.colorado.edu> <1996Sep12.180552.1@eisner> <3238B024.794B@maths.usyd.edu.au> to: Robbie Gates content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: Jurai Empire Strike Force mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.object,comp.lang.java.tech,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.ada x-mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; Linux 2.0.17 i486) Date: 1996-09-14T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Don't sweat it. People on newsgroups treat each other like garbage. This is because we can. If people talked trash to each other the way that we do on USENET, we'd see visual nonverbal signals of agression that would make us feel to distressed to continue. When the people on the other end of the connection are nothing more than a bit of badly written, and these days, badly formatted, text sometimes you get to feel that people should get the death penalty for stupid posts, unsolicited commerical spam and such. Another issue is that computer people are not good about attribution. To take an example, it seems clear that the advances in compiler technology from, say, the mid 60's to the mid 80's sprang from the lingustic discoveries of Noam Chomsky. Most of the people who use the technology don't care. In fact, even CS academics don't talk about it much, probably because they associate Noam Chomsky with the student protests of the 1960's and opposition to the Vietnam war. I get the impression that people learn programming from copying other people's code. If book publishers were honest about it, they'd write a book titled "Learn to Cut and Paste Java in 21 Hours!" People are more concerned with getting a program working fast than they are on attributing the source.