<div class="gmail_quote">On 22 October 2012 15:15, Yurii Rashkovskii <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:yrashk@gmail.com" target="_blank">yrashk@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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So you're recommending them to use function names they don't understand but name variables in a way they will understand and nobody else will?</blockquote></blockquote><div class="gmail_quote"><div></div></div></blockquote>
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<div class="gmail_quote"><div>I guess you could read that as my recommendation (if you can't read, that is).<br></div></div></blockquote></blockquote><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="gmail_quote"><div></div></div><div>This was a question. How are they supposed to be "using their own language" if 100% of Erlang itself is in English? </div></blockquote><div><br>Here's an experiment for you: go back over what I originally said and look for the word "only" or "sole" or any other such term. (Hint: this is not possible.) Extrapolate from those results to why I think you're beginning to look like a strident ass.<br>
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If this is what you consider "communication" to be, Yurii, then I'd say that your 7-year-old's passion for programming didn't help you one iota.<br></blockquote></div></blockquote><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"></blockquote></div><div>This is rather inappropriate, although expectable from somebody who starts off calling his interlocutor stupid ;) </div>
</blockquote></div><br>This would be another example of your inability to communicate. Let's go back to my original statement. I'll bold some key words for you:<br><br><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote">
How can <b>so many</b> <b>smart people</b> be so god-damned <b>dumb over this issue</b>?<br clear="all"></blockquote><div><br>If you can read this as me calling you stupid, you lack any and all language skills required to critique the use of language in others. Your misunderstandings include (but are not limited to):<br>
<ol><li>Thinking this was directed solely at you. (The construct "so many … people" indicates plurality. Hell just the word "people" does that all by itself!)</li><li>Skipping over the word "smart".</li>
<li>Missing the link between "dumb" and "this issue".<br></li></ol></div>Now were I mean-spirited I would, at this point, start agreeing with my original assessment as it was interpreted by you. I'm not, however, and instead chalk this up to the martyr complex you've been nursing ever since the "elders of Erlang" (as you refer to them) didn't come flocking to your sudden fascination with Elixir.<br>
<br>After all it is very easy to find offence if that is all you look for.<br><br>Now consider this carefully before commenting on language and work again (anywhere, I mean): Given that you've been speaking English since you were 7 (by your own statement, recall), and given that you managed to misunderstand as simple a sentence as the above, are you absolutely positive you can't see some value in people <b>working in their native language</b>?<br>
<br>-- <br>"Perhaps people don't believe this, but throughout all of the discussions of entering China our focus has really been what's best for the Chinese people. It's not been about our revenue or profit or whatnot."<br>
--Sergey Brin, demonstrating the emptiness of the "don't be evil" mantra.<br>