Re: OT Hatred (was Re: New Ada compiler for .NET)

[Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>]

Chad R. Meiners <crmeiners@hotmail.com> wrote:
: 
: Ignorance.  Honestly, hatred of people of whom you do not know can only be
: the result of ignorance.

True, yes, quite true, every report I've heard so far about people
living on the eastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea confirms mutual
ignorance on a large scale. With regard to the conflict in question,
this place seems highly representative to me. Even in that so much is,
in terms of gossip, said about the area, as well as about the good
western democracy against the evil eastern com_muslimists. I don't
know any better, but learning seems better to me than almost anything
currently discussed.

See http://www.rice.edu/projects/reno/Newsrel/2003/20020918_predictwar.shtml
for a computing related view.

: It is irrational to hate a country.

Well, it's not just rational to love someone (or at least I would hope
so), so rationality might be a more involved matter. But emotions do matter,
so if there were more honest information from those who will decide
about how military action is going to influence our daily lives in the
near future, and why, and why really, I'd feel a lot better. It opens
up room for arguments.

If you _knew_ Ada, and C, and ML, and Perl, and ..., whouldn't that be
better than just preferring one of those languages for reasons that
sometimes appear emotional, or religious, or fundamentalist?
If language wars are so frequent, what are the ways to evade, use,
prevent language wars? Have them do no real harm.

Anyone want to praise rational Ada programs, driving homeland protection
devices that won't erratically fly after my friends' mobile phones?
SCNR.

-- georg