Re: Unpredictable programming

From: Bruno Desthuilliers <onurb_at_xiludom.gro>
Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2006 11:05:24 +0200
Message-ID: <44a8ddd6$0$25784$636a55ce@news.free.fr>

Gene Wirchenko wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Jun 2006 13:05:18 +0200, Bruno Desthuilliers
> <onurb_at_xiludom.gro> wrote:
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>>Gene Wirchenko wrote:

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>>>     No, his flaming is useful.  cdt no longer has a long-time crank.

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> For "a", read "a particular".

Was it supposed to be obvious for non-cdt'ers ?

>

>>I really don't think the way he behaved in recent cross-posted threads
>>helped getting the message to comp.object (and that's an understatement).

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> It does not work in the short term, but it does in the long term.
> It took a while, but the crank I am referring to finally quit. I am
> tired of seeing good newsgroups trashed by twits. I thank Bob for
> speaking out effectively.

I see a premature generalization here. The fact that a strategy has proven to be effective for a given case doesn't imply that this strategy is the solution to all problems... Ever tried applying the "nail hammering" strategy to the "slicing bread" problem ?-)

-- 
bruno desthuilliers
python -c "print '@'.join(['.'.join([w[::-1] for w in p.split('.')]) for
p in 'onurb_at_xiludom.gro'.split('@')])"

Received on Mon Jul 03 2006 - 04:05:24 CDT