Re: Xah's Edu Corner: Examples of Quality Technical Writing

2006-03-12 Thread dcrockett355
Please come to my forum. Why others hate America . and invite others to join in the conversation. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Xah%27s-Edu-Corner%3A-Examples-of-Quality-Technical-Writing-t684449.html#a3362284 Sent from the Python - python-list forum at Nabble.com. --

Re: Xah's Edu Corner: Examples of Quality Technical Writing

2005-12-31 Thread Brad Baxter
Xah Lee wrote: i had the pleasure to read the PHP's manual today. http://www.php.net/manual/en/ although Pretty Home Page is another criminal hack of the unix lineage, but if we are here to judge the quality of its documentation, it is a impeccability. it has or possesses properties of:

Re: Xah's Edu Corner: Examples of Quality Technical Writing

2005-12-18 Thread Thomas G. Marshall
Lars Rune Nøstdal said something like: hi, everyone thinks youreoay faggot and that youreh stupid .. now go fugkght yourselfes peasse out .. yo! Idiot. PLONK -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Xah's Edu Corner: Examples of Quality Technical Writing

2005-12-17 Thread Lars Rune Nøstdal
hi, everyone thinks youreoay faggot and that youreh stupid .. now go fugkght yourselfes peasse out .. yo! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Xah's Edu Corner: Examples of Quality Technical Writing

2005-12-17 Thread Roedy Green
On 17 Dec 2005 19:34:36 -0800, Lars Rune Nøstdal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said : hi, everyone thinks youreoay faggot and that youreh stupid .. now go fugkght yourselfes If you want to insult someone, please spell it correctly and be accurate. Your anger

Re: Xah's Edu Corner: Examples of Quality Technical Writing

2005-12-15 Thread Keith Thompson
javuchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Why do you have such a need of being hating everything and everybody and expressing it so offen? Can you live without hate? Can you let others live without your hates? Xah Lee is a well-known troll. Replying to him is a waste of time. Please just ignore him.

Re: Xah's Edu Corner: Examples of Quality Technical Writing

2005-12-14 Thread javuchi
Why do you have such a need of being hating everything and everybody and expressing it so offen? Can you live without hate? Can you let others live without your hates? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Xah's Edu Corner: Examples of Quality Technical Writing

2005-12-14 Thread Luc The Perverse
javuchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Why do you have such a need of being hating everything and everybody and expressing it so offen? Can you live without hate? Can you let others live without your hates? A person can live without hate, living love and working

Re: Xah's Edu Corner: Examples of Quality Technical Writing

2005-12-07 Thread Gerald Klix
That's the most accurate description of Xah's behaviour I've read so far. Jon Perez schrieb: Sherm Pendley wrote: Xah's a pretty well-known troll in these parts. I suppose he thinks someone is going to take the bait and rush to defend the other languages or some such nonsense. Actually,

Re: Xah's Edu Corner: Examples of Quality Technical Writing

2005-12-06 Thread Alex Stapleton
On 6 Dec 2005, at 04:55, Xah Lee wrote: i had the pleasure to read the PHP's manual today. http://www.php.net/manual/en/ To be fair, the PHP manual is pretty good most of the time. I mean, just imagine trying to use PHP *without* the manual?! It's not like the language is even vaguely

Re: Xah's Edu Corner: Examples of Quality Technical Writing

2005-12-06 Thread Pascal Bourguignon
Xah Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i had the pleasure to read the PHP's manual today. http://www.php.net/manual/en/ although Pretty Home Page is another criminal hack of the unix lineage, but if we are here to judge the quality of its documentation, it is a impeccability. it has or

Re: Xah's Edu Corner: Examples of Quality Technical Writing

2005-12-06 Thread Ulrich Hobelmann
Pascal Bourguignon wrote: Do you have an Approved by Xah Lee seal logo they could put on their web page? Funny, that'd *exactly* mirror the opinion I have of PHP :D (btw, why is this posted to every newsgroup EXCEPT a PHP one? make us feel good?) -- Majority, n.: That quality that

Re: Xah's Edu Corner: Examples of Quality Technical Writing

2005-12-06 Thread Sherm Pendley
Ulrich Hobelmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: btw, why is this posted to every newsgroup EXCEPT a PHP one? Xah's a pretty well-known troll in these parts. I suppose he thinks someone is going to take the bait and rush to defend the other languages or some such nonsense. sherm-- -- Cocoa

Re: Xah's Edu Corner: Examples of Quality Technical Writing

2005-12-06 Thread Jon Perez
Sherm Pendley wrote: Xah's a pretty well-known troll in these parts. I suppose he thinks someone is going to take the bait and rush to defend the other languages or some such nonsense. Actually, I think Xah often has a point, except he can't seem to express it without resorting to profanity

Re: Xah's Edu Corner: Examples of Quality Technical Writing

2005-12-06 Thread Erik Max Francis
Jon Perez wrote: Actually, I think Xah often has a point, except he can't seem to express it without resorting to profanity and a controlled manner, thus giving the impression he's a troll. Also, he seems to be blissfully unaware of the concept of netiquette. ;-) His points have about

Xah's Edu Corner: Examples of Quality Technical Writing

2005-12-05 Thread Xah Lee
i had the pleasure to read the PHP's manual today. http://www.php.net/manual/en/ although Pretty Home Page is another criminal hack of the unix lineage, but if we are here to judge the quality of its documentation, it is a impeccability. it has or possesses properties of: • To the point and

Re: Xah's Edu Corner: Examples of Quality Technical Writing

2005-12-05 Thread Steve Holden
Xah Lee wrote: [...] • No author masturbation. (if fact, you won't see a first-person perspective, as is the case with most quality tech writing.) We [...] Will new readers please note that this author is well-known for posting inflammatory and irrelevant material on many inappropriate