Re: The Promise of Forth

Aleksej Saushev <asau@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Marc Olschok <nobody@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
> 
> > Duke Normandin <dukeofperl@[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. It is truely sick!
> >
> > Don't panic.
> > A Newsgroup is rarely ever a faithful representation of a particular
> > community. Discussions will most often focus on those areas where
> > participants disagree and not on areas of mutual agreement.
> 
> You're wrong in that. This newsgroup is a wonderful representation of
> subcommunity, there're active persons with their sense, feelings,
> and personal relations between them.  Do you mention discussions
> on points of disagreement as an argument against it? You're wrong then.

I do not view such discussions as an argument against the
community involved. On the contrary, I think that one point of
having Usenet NGs is to have such debates. What I pointed out
to NG, was the basic observation that within such discussions,
the focus is usually more on points of disagreement rather than points
of agreement.

Marc