Re: Help i'm new

["Patrick Donnelly" <batrick.donnelly@...>]

On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 2:15 PM, Evan DeMond <evan.demond@gmail.com> wrote:
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>
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> On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 4:01 PM, Roberto Ierusalimschy
> <roberto@inf.puc-rio.br> wrote:
> >
> > > Could you be even more specific and say exactly which contact list?
> > > (This might take the form of e-mail addresses it mentions and/or a URL
> > > where this "contact list" can be found.)  Without extra details I
> > > don't think we'll know which online documentation you mean, and hence
> > > won't be able to determine if there's something here that can be
> > > usefully updated/fixed.
> >
> > Probably he meant the list of authors. Before sending to this list, he
> sent
> > us this nice message:
> >
> >  I have had this piece of crap for over a month and still can't get it to
> >  install. Your read me file is very confusing. Plat paths make file test
> >  install. All these are designed very poorly. How about a simply install
> so i
> >  can at least start learning to write script and stop screwing with an
> >  install that is barbaric one wonders if the language can possibly worth
> >  learning. I am running windows xp. I have downloaded your 5.1.3 version.
> All
> >  files want to know what program to open them. Install does nothing. All I
> >  want is to be able to start the damn thing. What moron thought releasing
> it
> >  in this shape was a good thing?
> >
>
> I don't want to condone or reward the use of tones like this in requests for
> help, but I'm wondering if we could still take something away from this.
> Would it be worth it to have a Lua Users Wiki page to guide users through
> the very basic stuff, such as the general concept of running scripts in
> languages like Lua, how to use the Lua.exe executable, etc?
>
> I know this material is out there already if you look for it, it's got to
> be, but do we have it all in one easy document or page to point to for other
> users with completely blank slates (and friendlier attitudes?)
>
> Evan
>

Someone as inept as this kid clearly doesn't read anything to begin
with. If he HAD he would have noticed the first sentence on
http://www.lua.org/contact.html is "Please send all Lua questions,
suggestions, and bug reports to the mailing list:".

-- 
-Patrick Donnelly

"One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing
to do and always a clever thing to say."

-Will Durant