From: Chad Perrin <perrin@...>
Date: 2006-08-31T08:04:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Dr. Dobb's dumps on RedCloth

On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 07:40:34AM +0900, Doug H wrote:
> William James wrote:
> > "Welcome to the 1980s." is fud.
> > Can you comprehend that?
> 
> Look it up.  When you argue for one software/api/language whatever by
> saying or implying without any basis in fact that another is out of
> date, unpopular, etc., that is fud.

I think you're missing a point intended in the statement about the '90s.
As I understood it, the comment was meant as a satirical reference to
the "Welcome to the 1980s" comment in the review, pointing out that:

  A) it is ridiculous to use that sort of attack on the Writeboard
  technology because it is not a 1980s answer to a 21st-century problem,
  as the article's author is implying, but rather an answer to a
  completely different problem than the one the author addresses

  B) far from proving that the Writeboard solution is out of date, the
  author is instead indicating that his criteria for judging it might in
  fact be out of date

That's a hyperbolic demonstration of the inappropriateness of the
author's criteria, not FUD, as far as I can tell.

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