That explains it all. John
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John Gilmore Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2013 9:43 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Load and Add Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts. --Daniel Patrick Moynihan Élitism comes in several flavors. Some, like those rooted in pride in having chosen a grandfather advantageously, are always ridiculous and sometimes ugly. Others are not. The net has an implicit 'ethic' that makes all posts, even and in particular uninformed ones, equally weighty. This notion has its places, but technical fora are not among them. 'Élitism' used pejoratively is now usually followed by some dubious denigation of specifically intellectual competence. (High competence in sports is not stigmatized in the same way.) Here specifically we are dealing with a set of conventions that focus on function rather than enumerative sequence. Other choices might have been made, as the Bastille might have fallen in October rather than July, in which case the French would not now celebrate their Fête Nationale on July 14th. These other choices were not made, and those that were made must now be understood and lived with. This, moreover, is no bad thing; they hang together; and they have an evolutionary rationale. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA
