Re: The Promise of Forth

On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, Bruce McFarling wrote:

>
>
> On Mar 24, 10:41 pm, Duke Normandin <dukeofp...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > Having read this thread from its beginning, it sweep over this newbie
that
> > the current Forth community - such as it is - is _not_ a co-operative
> > society, but rather a chronically argumentative one.
>
> Don't confuse this for a Forth community ... its a Usenet newsgroup.
> You ask a question and you get:
> (1) someone saying you are terrible to be thinking of the problem in
> those terms
> (2) an answer that does not work from someone who knows less than you
> (3) a 542 post argument rehashing who did what to whom at some obscure
> meeting in 1982
> (4) four intriguing ideas that have nothing to do with your question
> but are interesting nevertheless and
> (5) if you luck out, a useful answer to your question ... sometimes
> none, and sometimes five excellent onces written at almost exactly the
> same time some two days after the 542 post re-argument has died down.
>
> When you find a Usenet newsgroup that looks like it functions as a
> community, its because a community exists (or several do and they find
> it worth their while to jointly maintain the newsgroup as a common
> bazaar) and members of the community keep acting like members of a
> community when they are on the newsgroup.

Point taken! Can you show me the way to San Jose? ;)
-- 
Duke Normandin
dukeofperl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?