On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:07:31 -0400, Sean Kelly <[email protected]>
wrote:
On Sep 13, 2011, at 8:07 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
On Mon, 12 Sep 2011 20:11:57 -0400, Jeff Nowakowski <[email protected]>
wrote:
On 09/12/2011 07:06 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
If you were in my position, wouldn't you have posted that
article?
I hope I wouldn't have published it, since I don't like misleading
marketing.
Since when is marketing *ever* not misleading? I've yet to see the
marketing campaign where Coke or Pepsi touts how their products make
you fat.
Marketing and advertising are not the same thing.
Advertising is marketing. Not all marketing is advertising, but certainly
marketing your weaknesses is not a usual practice.
The goal of marketing is to get customers to buy your product. For an
freely-available open-source language, the situation is no different, the
competition is just as fierce, the only difference is the lack of price.
But the whole idea that posting a positive view of a language/product is
"misleading" strikes me as hilarious. That's all I was saying.
-Steve
