A while back, I undertook not to post overmuch to this group apart
from status reports on a new programming language, spinoza, which
shall implement some ideas I've aired in discussion.

I promised an XML parser piece by March 30th since I need to convert
object state to something reasonable.

However, in testing the parser I noted that an xmlParser "is" a
progress reporter and since Bad Progress Reports that Suck are a bane,
and because progress reporting seems to me to have a nongraphical,
logical component ("I am processing entities of type e at entity n of
m where m may be unknown") as well as a visual component, I have
pushed xmParser testing on a stack and am working on progress
reports ... not of course this type of progress report but simply the
support of visual progress while the xmlParser, and countless other
tools, make progress.

"spinoza1111" yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:fdec2aeb-81a1-4446-b206-09100a2dc240@l28g2000prd.googlegroups.com...

[...]

(Momentarily ignoring my own counsel of ignoring you, Ed.)

As if anyone here would be foolish enough to send you their email address.

(Recloaking.)

spinoza1111 wrote, On 13.4.2008 12:17:

People like this make me wonder whether freedom of speech is really a good thing.

On Apr 14, 6:39 am, Vaclav Haisman wrote:

...thank you for your honesty. Most people, especially the lower
middle class, really don't support real freedom of speech when someone
like me actually tries it. Sure, they are ready enough to allow
conventional messages of the sort that a controlled press or a
corporate newsletter prints and of the sort no-one actually reads.

But if someone actually engages reality as such, the usual "supporter
of free speech" is perfectly willing to see that person beat up in an
alleyway in the name of a quiet life for the majority.

On Apr 14, 6:28 am, "Bruce C. Baker" undisclosedlocation.net>
wrote:

spinoza1111 yahoo.com> writes:

All one can conclude from this is that you don't consider yourself in
the lower middle class, or that you're wrong.
Neither have anything to do with comp.programming, though.

Vaclav Haisman said:

Freedom of speech *is* a good thing.

Fortunately, we have freedom of listening. We are not required to listen to
gibberish, and many Usenet newsreading clients are quite well-furnished
with ways to filter it out automatically. Or we can simply shrug and move
on. Usenet conventions are for those who understand the value of
conventions (and of courtesy). Those who lack such understanding cannot be
persuaded to gain it, but neither is there any requirement imposed upon us
to listen to their verbiage.

On Apr 14, 2:41 pm, Richard Heathfield wrote:

spinoza1111 said:

On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 07:42:17 +0000, Richard Heathfield wrote:

I believe he is talking about your responses to him. (I should find a
news reader that can filter articles based on whether there's a parent
article by a certain author in their thread...)