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 More options Aug 20 2002, 4:06 am
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
From: ilias <at_n...@pontos.net>
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 11:11:40 +0300
Local: Tues, Aug 20 2002 4:11 am
Subject: Re: LISP - 24hours in a few days - headache

Craig Brozefsky wrote:
> ilias <at_n...@pontos.net> writes:

>>Craig Brozefsky wrote:

>>>il...@lazaridis.de writes:

>>>>not from the language:

>>>>headache from the people in the newsgroups.

>>>>as in other newgroups: no precision, no gentleness, no focussing on the
>>>>posters problems & questions. Many throw out all their psychological
>>>>garbage (auto-collected).

>>>Many people, most of the responses in fact, have responded to your
>>>questions in a positive manner, attempting to provide an explanation
>>>for the curretn conditions and how to operate within them. Why do you
>>>choose to ignore them when writing this screed?

>>actually i don't.

>>*you* choose to do it. another undfriendly behaviour in c.l.l., and
>>generally in newsgroups: *quoting uncompletely*

> You are reading unfriendliness into a misunderstanding of your use of
> english.

not true, see below.

> Above you did not qualify who you were talking about and I
> assumed "headache from the people in the newsgroup" meant the
> newsgroup at large.

you assumed correct.

> Your later qualification "But some hilights." was
> basically unintelligible and I had no way to tie it to the rest of the
> post even with my several decades of English usage.

so you tied it to "nowhere"?

why don't you ask: what do you mean by "but some highlights"?

especially, as you realize that my use of english is unprecise?

switch.

we can start now to be productive.

you are a friendly one.


 
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