From: fresh@scscomm.com (Andrew Mathis)
Subject: Re: Colin James is mad because OOPSLA kicked his butt (Was: RFD: rmgroup comp.lang.eiffel)
Date: 1996/12/13
Date: 1996-12-13T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <58si8v$pfl@news.nyu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 199612130511.VAA31385@cypherpunks.ca
Nice article, but I'd cut off the title right before "because..."
Andrew Mathis
nobody@cypherpunks.ca (John Anonymous MacDonald, a remailer node)
wrote:
>Many readers of comp.lang.* newsgroups are surprised by CJ3's attacks on
>Eiffel and its designers: not so long ago The Right Reverend Colin James
>III praised Eiffel and licked ass of ISE and ISE management.
>CJ3's web page was opening with thanks to Bertrand Meyer and his book
>``which started it all for CEC-services'' (quote from CJ3's page). In
>the section "recent media coverage of CEC-services" he even referred to
>a link from www.eiffel.com pointing to www.cec-services.com as the only
>evidence of "recent media coverage". It does not really matter that TRRCJ3
>was lying and such link did not exist.
>[what a pity that extensive coverage in alt.usenet.kooks was not mentioned]
>What happened: CJ3 wanted to go to OOPSLA conference (an OO conference
>with heavy Eiffel presence) to make a speech about himself.
>OOPSLA committee decided not to let him make a speech there because of
>his stupidity, lack of achievement and KOTM (Kook of the Month)
>notoriety. CJ3 was so pissed off at the committee that he now bashes
>Eiffel (quite ineptly) and added some of the key people behind OOPSLA to
>his "netscum" web page, formerly at http://redfrog.norconnect.no/~netscum
>CJ3 also altered his own web page at www.cec-services.com so that now he
>thanks some other guy and another book "which started it all".
>Thank you, OOPSLA organizers, for not letting nutbags like CJ3 disturb
>the object-oriented community.
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