From: Robert Dober Date: 2008-05-08T21:00:00+09:00 Subject: Re: Posting Culture On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 1:39 PM, Phillip Gawlowski wrote: I would like to add some general ideas I have about this. 1) Often the teacher learns more than the pupil 2) If it is more trouble than fun than do not do it 3) Sometimes I try hard to understand (and often get it wrong) because it is an important skill to have. I am aware that this might be seen as a bad attitude encouraging peope not to take too much trouble to explain things but on the other hand, imagine you had to ask for advice in French ;) That does not apply tor Guy, Fred and Rick who have to imagine using Finnish, mais je ne repondrais pas ;) If I had to vote for a MVP (most valuable POSTER of course ;) it would be Ara, not for his numerous marvelous contributions to the Ruby world, because there are others, many others that do marvelous things too, ***but for his quote*** :) Cheers Robert -- http://ruby-smalltalk.blogspot.com/ --- Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent. Ludwig Wittgenstein