On Monday, 23 November 2015 at 20:21:37 UTC, Chris Wright wrote:
I'm not always politically correct
Most of the time, "politically correct" means being
respectful to others, except the speaker intends to indicate
that that is a bad thing.
Political correctness tries to censor the free expression of
thoughts and has nothing to do with being respectful or not.
Being politically correct means to censor one's own thoughts
out of fear of being told off.
This is your line of objection when I asked you to be
respectful toward people who might want to learn D.
Have I ever been disrespectful toward people who want to learn D?
Have I ever told people not to learn D? Where did you get that
idea? Seriously, where?
I merely objected to comparing (domain specific) scripting
languages like JS and PHP to D and I gave my reasons for it in
one of my posts. I strongly warn against drawing conclusions from
JS's and PHP's success story for D and how to market it. D will
never gain traction in the same way and for the same reasons JS
and PHP gained traction in the late 90ies. Please try to think
about the points I made instead of feeling offended, because you
may happen to use PHP or JS or both (or know someone who does).
Normal people are polite and respectful out of common human
decency. Does this sometimes mean not uttering everything that
passes through your head? Of course. But the motivation comes
from wanting to work well with others and even from caring
about other people. Not fear of being told off.
Only, I wasn't talking about people. What does bashing a language
have to do with lack of respect? Bashing languages is normal in
the programming world and it does not equal bashing the _users_
of the language in question, which I fear you believe. I too have
to use JS, out of necessity, and PHP for that matter. Using
mediocre, messy or unspectacular languages doesn't mean you're an
idiot.
Does this not work for you?
Oh please. Do you want to shame me? Really? Will not work.
Seriously.
