Endless ranting and rude insults

[Thomas McGrath III]

I miss Ben. At least he knew that he was rude.

Tom

On Jun 29, 2005, at 12:26 AM, Thomas McGrath III wrote:

> I for one am getting very annoyed at the constant ranting and raving 
> lately and especially the snide and rude remarks. I try to assume 
> since there are many non-english speaking people or ones with whom 
> english is not their first language on the list that sometimes it 
> might just sound rude but not really be rude because of the language 
> translations. But there are a couple of people that have been just 
> plain rude. Insulting "the whole list" and accusations that 'real 
> programmers would never work this way" or " I am used to decent tools" 
> etc.
> I am also getting fed up with the references to "better" programs and 
> or languages like Pascal, FORTRAN, VB, Delphi, Java, or Word. If they 
> are so great then I must ask "Why are these people here?" , "Why not 
> just go back to these 'superior' products/languages?"
>
> I am trying to learn Transcript and could care less about these other 
> languages. I am trying to become proficient with Transcript not with 
> VB or Delphi. I do mind about how Rev progresses and grows and I for 
> one don't want it influenced by these other languages or programs at 
> all. Instead of saying that we all should change because these people 
> don't like it or are not used to it, I suggest rather that these 
> people learn to adapt to this far superior way of 'simple' coding 
> style instead of wasting so much list space with all this nonsense.
>
> Now maybe I am just having a bad day and maybe not, but I think some 
> of this is going too far.
>
>
> Tom
>
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