How easy it is to justify bad behavior. 

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of John Paul Ashenfelter
Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2005 9:25 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [CFCDev] Witnessed the power of CF

On 11/9/05, Hal Helms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Have some people gone off their meds in the last week? First the 
> cfsqltool guy gets beat up, then we have to have a lengthy discussion 
> about credit and running a business, and now we have to rehash for the 
> umpteenth time whether CF is easier/better than language X? FWIW, this 
> is not my idea of fun, nor is it helpful.

Discussion and debate are healthy -- and ocassionally something gets learned
by one of the parties or the reader(s). Considering that every conversation
on this list ends up in Google/Y!/MSN/etc, continuing a discussion can serve
to show someone coming into the debate from another method (eg a Google
search) that there *IS* some debate about a particular point.

As a specific instance, I've had CFSQLTool on my evaluate list for a while
now. Based on the discussion so far, I've saved the time of digging through
the code and can safely move on -- the time spent reading that argument
saved me some time reevaluating something that it looks like I don't need.
That's a plus for me, so I'm happy about the exchange.

Sean's discussion was quite justified considering how many times he was
slammed for being a MM/Adobe employee. And when someone makes claims you
find ridiculous, engaging in a dialog is healthy. You'll notice that while
Jim and I are disagreeing, I don't think either one of us has been uncivil.

And it's simple enough to filter out what email you don't want to read. Or
let Mr. Dinowitz move it along.
--
John Paul Ashenfelter
CTO/Transitionpoint
(blog) http://www.ashenfelter.com
(email) [EMAIL PROTECTED]


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