Elizabeth D Rather wrote:
> 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.
Why do you think that a viewpoint from outside your narrow world is
intended as bait? There was no such intent, nor is this paragraph
intended as bait either. I HAVE A DIFFERENT VIEWPOINT FROM YOU. Is this
so hard to understand?
--
John Doty, Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
http://www.noqsi.com/
--
The axiomatic method of mathematics is one of the great achievements of
our culture. However, it is only a method. Whereas the facts of
mathematics once discovered will never change, the method by which these
facts are verified has changed many times in the past, and it would be
foolhardy to expect that changes will not occur again at some future
date. - Gian-Carlo Rota
