From: Chad Perrin <code@...>
Date: 2011-04-08T14:15:57+09:00
Subject: Re: functional paradigm taking over

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On Fri, Apr 08, 2011 at 12:14:35PM +0900, Mike Stephens wrote:
>=20
> Chad , you have a rather prejudiced view of languages that don't look
> like what you're used to.

[snip a bunch of irrelevancies]

It's clear you are so unwilling to accept the idea that a language is a
language, and a not-language is not a language, that nothing I say will
ever find an ear willing to listen.  You completely overlook the fact
that my statements are consistent with the specific purposes for which
4GLs and end-user spreadsheet applications were designed, and assume that
saying "it's good at what it was designed to do, and less so at other
stuff" is directly translatable to "these tools suck in every way,
probably because you use them".

I'm not interested in listening to you twist my words that way any
longer, nor in reading any more of your commentary about how you've done
lots of stuff for a long time and are thus superior in all ways to me who
dares to notice that special-purpose 4GLs and end-user spreadsheets are
not general purpose programming languages.

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Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]

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