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Subject: Re: EXIT THEN
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2017 19:16:58 -0500
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On Tue, 31 Jan 2017 14:42:50 -0800 (PST)
hughaguilar96@gmail.com wrote:

> On Tuesday, January 31, 2017 at 3:22:23 AM UTC-7, Andrew Haley wrote:
> > rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> wrote:  

> > > Yes, I see you [Hugh] are slipping back into rant mode.  I
> > > thought for a bit you were seriously interested in discussing
> > > Forth, but I see I was mistaken.  Please don't post a manifesto.
> > > I'm not prepared for that. 
> > > 
> > What is the point of quoting all that stuff?  Please learn to trim.
> > 
> 
> Andrew Haley is not capable of writing code such as my <SWITCH
> construct --- please learn to program...

Is that the measure of the man, whether he can code or not?  Or, is the
measure of a man whether what code he generously provides will be
useful to someone else?  Who exactly will use your <SWITCH construct?
It's non-standard and there are other constructs which are widely
available.  Even you admitted, indirectly, that no one should use it:

HA> "I don't care about <SWITCH --- it only took me one day to write;
HA> it wasn't a brain buster --- it isn't very good because ..."

So, folks, AISI, this is our summary:

a) Hugh thinks he can code well, but he finds his own code to be rather
worthless, which begs the question of whether or not he actually can.
Is there a point to coding, if one can only produce bad code?

b) Andrew is perceived by Hugh as not being able to code, but Hugh's
opinion in this regard, given a), is likely to be worthless.  Should
the guy who admitted he writes crappy code be judging others?

Wow, the stuff I see.  Moving on, ...


Rod Pemberton