From: Chris Carter Date: 2007-04-27T07:31:17+09:00 Subject: Re: C++ code into Ruby, I need it fast, no time for RTFM ------=_Part_67465_25565996.1177626675820 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline On 4/26/07, Michael T. Richter wrote: > > On Wed, 2007-25-04 at 21:12 +0900, David Jones wrote: > > There are still ways to ask for things. > > > And those ways vary by culture. Andrei is painfully obviously not a > native English speaker. Cut the guy some slack. What happened to the whole > "Matz Is Nice So...." meme that supposedly dominates this community? > > -- > *Michael T. Richter* (*GoogleTalk:* > ttmrichter@gmail.com) > *A well-designed and humane interface does not need to be split into > beginner and expert subsystems. (Jef Raskin)* > > I agree, this mailing list seems to be getting a lot more hostile towards people new to ruby. Posting a link to google or how to ask questions, or making a snide remark about how they format their messages is not going to get people into ruby. I know if someone just posted a link to google with nothing else if I asked a question about a new language, I would be turned off from it, even if I could have asked it better. -- Chris Carter concentrationstudios.com brynmawrcs.com ------=_Part_67465_25565996.1177626675820--