Why do /you/ take it personally?
On 12/14/10, retard <[email protected]> wrote: > Mon, 13 Dec 2010 14:44:36 -0500, snk_kid wrote: > >> Gary Whatmore Wrote: >> >>> Simen kjaeraas Wrote: >>> >>> > Walter Bright <[email protected]> wrote: >>> > >>> > > Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: >>> > >> Compared to the talk at Google, I changed one of the "cool things" >>> > >> from threading to operator overloading. Didn't manage to talk >>> > >> about that - there were a million questions - although I think >>> > >> it's a great topic. >>> > >> http://erdani.com/tdpl/2010-12-08-ACCU.pdf >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > Anyone care to do the honors and post this to reddit programming? >>> > >>> > Done. >>> > >>> > http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/eklq0/ > andrei_alexandrescus_talk_at_accu_silicon_valley/ >>> >>> Guys, I made several sockpuppet reddit accounts to mod down the two >>> guys >criticising this thread. I recommend everyone to help us improve >>> D's publicity by >ignoring these trolls and voting them down. It has >>> worked before, too -- reddit >seems to fold the subthreads that get too >>> many negative votes. This makes it >look much better than it is. >>> >>> - G.W. >> >> That's absolutely pathetic, you're actually doing the community a >> disservice. > > I really don't know what to say. Take a look at > > 0 points: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/eklq0/ > andrei_alexandrescus_talk_at_accu_silicon_valley/c18swbi > > or > > -1 points: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/eklq0/ > andrei_alexandrescus_talk_at_accu_silicon_valley/c18sz8n > > These say nothing against D. Why does one take them personally? They are > both also highly informative. As far as I can tell, these two comments go > much deeper in operator semantics theory than the combined effort of 68 > other threads by Walter, Andrei et al. For example the precedence of > operators can get problematic when using several libraries from various > vendors. > > Then you have: > > http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/eklq0/ > andrei_alexandrescus_talk_at_accu_silicon_valley/c18t1d5 > > "I really like D (2.0) and I wish it would take off." > > 7 points? WTF? What is the value of this reply? It's a purely subjective > opinion and doesn't necessarily even beg for further discussion. >
