Well, this thread WAS hijacked, but it seems to have spawned a good
discussion and that’s more than it was really worth anyhow.
@Matz and @Peter H.
The Python jab was trolling, I’ll admit it. I definitely won’t say that
I know Python, I know enough to think that the indent-block syntax is
neat and that being required to pass “self” to instance methods is not.
I just wanted to say “hello” to the group. Totally posting my ego and
little more. I found my ‘hello’ program a little more clever than most
‘hello world’ programs and was testing the community a little by
trolling it and seeing what would happen.
I will say that I’m impressed that I didn’t get any flames and not only
that, but my pretty useless thread became a legitimate discussion. I
applaud you all.
I hope, in time, I will be able to contribute to this community and help
build what we all know is great.
P.S. I’m all for a beginner’s list. I feel I fit in between and I
believe that’s why it would work. I definitely know enough to help
beginners out, but I don’t know enough to consider myself a pro, but
when I need help I would turn to the pro list for my answers. I believe
that there are many ‘intermediate’ Rubyists, like myself, that would tie
the two lists together and bring a separation-of-concerns to this
growing community.
and friends.
That’s not to say an unofficial list is not be possible, it just would
that’s completely wrong: code talks, bullshit walks. Basically, if you
may be right that times have changed enough now that a “3rd party”
could get another list rolling. Hell, maybe both a help/beginner and
tech/expert list.
T.
It still seems no one has taken the point… all this discussion about
another
list seems to get lots of enthusiatic off topic discussion going about
another list when straight forward on topic requests for information go
unanswered by the community.
It seems there is more interest in debata than mutual support.
It still seems no one has taken the point… all this discussion about another
list seems to get lots of enthusiatic off topic discussion going about
another list when straight forward on topic requests for information go
unanswered by the community.
It seems there is more interest in debata than mutual support.
Call it meta-discussion (i.e. discussion about how posters should
discuss). Wrong thread, but good intentions.
It still seems no one has taken the point… all this discussion about another
list seems to get lots of enthusiatic off topic discussion going about
another list when straight forward on topic requests for information go
unanswered by the community.
It seems there is more interest in debata than mutual support.
My fault. I should have change the subject line when I posited the
idea. My apologies – little too late to fix now though.
I do that all the time. But, I’m a little weird. I’m a fan of set
theory and organization, but still believe the best thread is the one
that runs its crazy course. In fact, I would go so far to say, that’s
where I learn the most.
On Monday 11 August 2008 01:09 pm, David S. wrote:
It still seems no one has taken the point… all this discussion about
another
list seems to get lots of enthusiatic off topic discussion going about
another list when straight forward on topic requests for information go
unanswered by the community.
“I resemble those remarks!” (-somebody) I saw the question that (was
it) you
or somebody else posted. I could offer no help, so I didn’t. (I don’t
recall much about the question, it was in a Windows context, which I
don’t
run anymore, but even so, I had no help to offer·