On Friday 13 July 2007, Andrew Coppin wrote: > Stefan O'Rear wrote: > > Don does not speak for the whole community, I for one am fine with > > answering all these questions :) > > I guess when somebody as important as Don says something, you take > notice... > > > Specifically, Don really wants you to get off of the mailing list and > > ask all these questions on IRC; he's been trying to hint this to you for > > a while. My extreme social cluelessness allows me to explain it to your > > face. (not that I agree with him; IRC is not well suited to things > > requiring long explanations like "what is a quantifier") > > True. And IRC also has the limitation that you only access the people > who are logged in right *now*... > > On the other hand, IRC has the advantage that if somebody goes into a > long explanation and you didn't really understand step #2 there, you can > ask them to stop and go back to that part without having them write a > huge explanation that you won't understand anyway... so they both have > advantages. (And then there was that time I tried to use a release of > Gtk2hs which, unknown to me, was brand new and had a small installer > glitch in it... Mr Coutts was most helpful on that one.) And let's not > forget Lambdabot... LOL! > > >> (Everybody in the main forum I inhabit has now taken to auto-deleting > >> any post that mentions the word "Haskell". Except for Mr C++, who seems > >> to seek out such threads so he can tell me how superior C++ is to > >> Haskell...) > > > > Try not to care what other people think. > > LOL! If only that were in fact physically possible...
Why not? I do it all the time... > Is it OK to quote xkcd in responce to this one? It's always OK to quote xkcd :) > http://www.xkcd.com/c154.html > > ;-) Jonathan Cast http://sourceforge.net/projects/fid-core http://sourceforge.net/projects/fid-emacs _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
