On Sat, 12 Feb 2011 15:57:41 +0000 Alasdair <[email protected]> wrote: > Enough already, AJ > I refuse to make public the contents of the off-list message you wrote > to me addressed "Dear Adversory"
This whole tongue in cheek business seems to be acceptable one direction, doesn't it? As I said, some people will misquote, misconstrue and misuse anything - I suppose that the "No hard feelings (really!)" part wasn't such a good soundbite, was it? On the original topic that started the whole pointless argument, I've stated the qualification most relevant here; as someone who has added various aircraft models which included several features previously unknown in FG, I know that most of these features (possibly all of them) were only possible for me to include because of the incredible flexibility that nasal provides when coupled with the property tree. It seemed that almost any feature I could think of implementing was possible (and to give the credit where due, I've had a lot of expert help from Andy, Melchior and Vivian in the actual implementation) without touching the base code - as Curt mentioned, many features are specific to individual or very small groups of aircraft and should not add to a general clutter in the main codebase. For the record I have a perfectly respectable collection of academic qualifications in engineering but that is quite beside the point of the discussion. Also for the record I am entirely unashamed of the single, very obviously tongue in cheek email which I sent off-list in an attempt to let you have the last word in public and be done; however since you have insisted on trying to blacken my character by suggesting that the rest of the message was malicious, I will append it here with sincere apologies to the rest of the list who are no doubt as uninterested in childish tit-for-tat as I am (the real reason the original was sent off-list, as stated). If anyone insists on reading malice into it, I'm afraid it's more a reflection on their character than mine... AJ Last night's off-list email, complete; " Dear adversary, Not to the list, as I can cope with not having the last word publically and there's been enough drivel posted today... just a few friendly hints; I have no ass and being of a fairly feeble disposition, not given to much raging animal cruelty, have never felt an inclination to bite one. I was sadly unaware until today that I was in possession of "lack skills", I am much indebted to you for pointing these out. I was, sadly, unable to permit your massively witty comments to pass over my head but would highlight the following equations for your edification: "Hugest abomination" = Hyperbole "question the sanity" (in reference to a comparatively trivial matter of software design) = Hyperbole Don't bother with even minor flame wars on the Internet, they're a complete waste of time - you should know better than that by now, as should I ;-) No hard feelings (really!) AJ " ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The ultimate all-in-one performance toolkit: Intel(R) Parallel Studio XE: Pinpoint memory and threading errors before they happen. Find and fix more than 250 security defects in the development cycle. Locate bottlenecks in serial and parallel code that limit performance. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devfeb _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
