On Apr 20, 2005, at 8:55 AM, Thomas Kirchner wrote:

> * On Apr 20 11:34, Ilias Lazaridis (ruby-talk / ruby-lang.org) wrote:
>> please keep the coherence of my writings, if you want me to take your
>> writings serious.
>
> I can't resist anymore.  Keeping the coherence of your writings would
> involve deliberately obscuring everything we write.  Seriously, please 
> add
> an [ILIAS] tag to all your mail.  Plonking you isn't enough, your 
> entire
> threads are useless...

I have to say that I have no idea what the big fuss is about. If you 
find Ilias irritating, just ignore what he says. How hard is that? 
That's what I do, and it's no trouble at all.

Ruby's getting bigger every year, and it's attracting all sorts of 
people with all sorts of personalities. Some of them make arguments 
differently than we're used to. Some of them ask questions differently 
than we're used to. Some of them even like Java.

So how are we going to respond to the new diversity? By figuring out 
how to accommodate newcomers or by yelling at them 'til they conform to 
our own personal style?

Are we looking for converts, or heretics?

I mean, I can't help but thinking that a bunch of people are wasting 
too much energy on bitching about other people, and too little energy 
on learning how to use a ML/newsgroup client with decent threading 
support.

And far, far too little energy writing more code.

Francis Hwang
http://fhwang.net/