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Group: comp.lang.forth · Group Profile
Author: Elizabeth D RatherElizabeth D Rather Date: Sep 19, 2008 12:25
John Passaniti wrote:
> John Doty wrote:
>>> I didn't want to discuss my application because it doesn't matter.
>>
>> That's where your outlook differs fundamentally from mine.
>
> Hey, way to take a comment out of context! You running for President or
> something?
>
> No, the application doesn't matter for my question. I am interested in
> history here.
>
>> The
>> application *always* matters. It matters more than anything else. But
>> we also disagree on what "application" means. Applications are things
>> like selling soap and finding planets. The computer and its code are
>> tools.
>
> I'm glad my message allowed you to return to your usual soap-box. If it
> would be helpful, I could write a script that would inject a message
> into comp.lang.forth periodically with plenty of key-words you could use
> to go off any any number of canonical rants.
It might help if you didn't always rise to his bait. I'm trying to
learn that lesson, too.
Cheers,
Elizabeth
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