On Monday 02 December 2002 09:51, you wrote: > <RANT2> : > I find this practice especially offensive when the poster is obviously > foreign. I wonder if some of the people who answer questions so flippantly > could, themselves, ask a programming question in another language? These > are people writing code in a language where "static" and "case" and > "return" don't convey meaning, they are just conventions to be learned.
HERE HERE! Having helped Italians with C/6809 many years ago, (while struggling with comments in Italian, mercifully translated by the two guys from Ensaldo) I know how hard it is for people who are not English speakers to learn to program. Tell you what, next time you go shopping, when you read the product labels to see what's in it, don't read the usual text, try the Arabic or Chinese or one of the Cyrillics instead. See how you get on. I have read this list for a loooooong time and I sometimes cringe in horror at the sheer ignorance and brutality contained in a one-line flippant reply. I can only put it down to the sender having a bad day that day. Heaven knows how the originator feels when reading such a reply. Karma works every-which-way I guess. At the end of the day, we are *all the same*, all fighting the intangible treacle that is information, trying to mould it into something useful be it a video game or a database application and we *all face the same problems* and can do without the abuse sometimes displayed herein. I'm sure it's not intentional. Sean Charles. (U.K. ...what's left of it.) -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
