Re: C++ religious war (was: llua Higher-level C API for Lua)

[Coroutines <coroutines@...>]

On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 8:42 AM, Andrew Starks <andrew.starks@trms.com> wrote:
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> On Saturday, March 22, 2014, Coroutines <coroutines@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 8:20 AM, Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > 2014-03-22 17:17 GMT+02:00 Coroutines <coroutines@gmail.com>:
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>> >> ((((fuck you make)))) :(
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>> > Learnt any other nice new expletives recently?
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>> I thought this was a mailing list :ppp
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> "Coroutines:"
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> I'm guilty of misreading this list's accepted decorum, so I have empathy for
> you here. Also, I'm going to use my past mistakes as permission to give you
> free advice[1].
>
> Dirk is being very kind. This lists appetite for swears or off-color jokes
> == 0.0. :) (celebrating Lua 5.3 here)
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> If you continue to throw stuff out like that or use a pseudonym, then you
> are likely going to be frustrated as people ignore you or admonish you, even
> as you may be raising good points or have good ideas.
>
> It may seem unfair or stupid or what have you, but accepting the social
> norms of a culture is just polite. The norms here are not at all what you
> might be use to on other lists.
>
> This is a fantastic list. I really do encourage you to consider
> resubscribing with your first name and to hold off on the humor until you
> are sure that you have a handle on things.
>
> If you need proof that I've made some bone headed errors, I'll be happy to
> send you past links. :)
>
> -Andrew
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> [1]Apologize if this should be off list. Don't know proper decorum there,
> either. :)
>

Well it was mostly sarcasm, but I'll try to keep the language in-check
:-)  I'm used to IRC more, definitely...  I'm a little shocked about
discouraging use of pseudonyms, though -- I have posted to this list
as other users before.  I could just as well make up a "real" name --
not trying to be disrespectful I just don't see the point aside from
having an identifier of some kind.  I can't get to most of the
Lua-related conferences and people know me moreso by my presence on
#lua.  Thanks for the polite nudge in the right direction :-)