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=0.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,964d2064d770b61a X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: ichbiah@twsolutions.com (Jean D. Ichbiah) Subject: Re: DEWAR (Spelled correctly!), Chill out Date: 1998/02/03 Message-ID: <34d891ea.15839537@news.tiac.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 321561716 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <34C7BA3D.4C41@cs.umd.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: Textware Solutions Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-02-03T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Friends and Colleagues, It is a moral duty to come to the rescue of someone as defenseless as Robert: > People often find it interesting to read my father's autobiography (it > is in the ACS autobiography series). You will recognize some things > there, particularly the notion that strenuous argument (in which people > should not get emotionally involved please) is a good path to understanding > issues. I always find it interesting that, at least in the Oxford tradition > of English in which I was brought up, argument is a positive term, not > at all related to the word quarrel, whereas in the US, it seems a very > negative word, not far from quarrel :-) I cannot remember a single strenuous argument with Robert in which he did not end up agreeing with me! Jean Ichbiah Textware Solutions ichbiah@twsolutions.com http://www.twsolutions.com