From: "Nick Roberts" <nickroberts@callnetuk.com>
Subject: Re: Kindness
Date: 1999/09/02
Date: 1999-09-02T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <37cec629@eeyore.callnetuk.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 37CE6B50.DE84D0EB@hercii.mar.lmco.com
Hear! hear!
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Nick Roberts
http://www.adapower.com/lab/adaos
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Jerry Petrey <gpetrey@hercii.mar.lmco.com> wrote in message
news:37CE6B50.DE84D0EB@hercii.mar.lmco.com...
| Mark Lundquist wrote:
| >
| > I hate to see people get trashed on for asking an innocent question!
| >
| > A while back, a guy posted to this group with a question about how to do
| > something (or not do it) in Ada. One respondent, a respected expert in
| > the Ada community, replied with a post that was pretty thoroughly
| > contemptuous and condescending.
| >
| > I don't get it! The guy asking the question was willing to expose his
| > ignorance, and he put the question clearly and courteously. So why the
| > insults? I felt bad for the guy who asked the question and embarassed
| > by this response. Also, it was a great opportunity to point out some of
| > the clear advantages of Ada, but it went to waste 'cause now that guy
| > will probably go away thinking of Ada as the Language Of Buttheads.
|
|
| Agreed! It doesn't help the Ada cause much to react that way. Except
| for those who are just looking for someone to do their homework
| assignment, I think we should do our best to give useful help. Even
| in those cases we can give polite suggestions to get them to do the
| work and really learn something.
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Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-08-31 0:00 Kindness Mark Lundquist
1999-09-02 0:00 ` Kindness Marin David Condic
1999-09-03 0:00 ` Kindness Geoff Bull
1999-09-03 0:00 ` Kindness Marin David Condic
1999-09-03 0:00 ` Kindness Larry Kilgallen
1999-09-03 0:00 ` Kindness Robert I. Eachus
1999-09-04 0:00 ` Eight Queens problem (was Re: Kindness) Daryle Walker
1999-09-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-14 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-09-06 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-09-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-07 0:00 ` bourguet
1999-09-08 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-08 0:00 ` bourguet
1999-09-08 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-08 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-09-03 0:00 ` Kindness tmoran
1999-09-03 0:00 ` Kindness Marin David Condic
[not found] ` <37D55622.69B27515@rational.com>
1999-09-07 0:00 ` Homework (was Re: Kindness) Larry Kilgallen
1999-09-08 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-09-08 0:00 ` Homework Mark Lundquist
1999-09-03 0:00 ` Kindness Robert Dewar
1999-09-03 0:00 ` Kindness Aidan Skinner
1999-09-03 0:00 ` Kindness Larry Kilgallen
1999-09-04 0:00 ` Kindness Aidan Skinner
1999-09-03 0:00 ` Kindness Marin David Condic
1999-09-06 0:00 ` Kindness Bill Findlay
1999-09-06 0:00 ` Kindness Robert Dewar
1999-09-07 0:00 ` Kindness Marin David Condic
1999-09-07 0:00 ` Kindness Bill Findlay
1999-09-06 0:00 ` Kindness Geoff Bull
1999-09-05 0:00 ` Kindness Aidan Skinner
1999-09-02 0:00 ` Kindness Larry Kilgallen
1999-09-03 0:00 ` Kindness Robert Dewar
1999-09-03 0:00 ` Kindness Andy Askey
1999-09-05 0:00 ` Kindness Robert Dewar
1999-09-07 0:00 ` Kindness Andy Askey
1999-09-07 0:00 ` Kindness Bill Findlay
1999-09-02 0:00 ` Kindness Jerry Petrey
1999-09-02 0:00 ` Nick Roberts [this message]
1999-09-03 0:00 ` Kindness Matthew Heaney
1999-09-09 0:00 ` Kindness James William Zuercher
1999-09-10 0:00 ` Kindness Robert Dewar
1999-09-10 0:00 ` Kindness Mark Lundquist
1999-09-10 0:00 ` Kindness Robert Dewar
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