Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Rod Pemberton" Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Politeness, was Re: Reducing C, Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2015 19:30:02 -0500 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 16 Message-ID: References: <1a6def09-04e6-44d6-ac2e-bc3b3280c8d8@googlegroups.com> <73ab7b08-43e0-4d72-a35f-18841d84d9aa@googlegroups.com> <5pGdnRQigfSwXFPJnZ2dnUU7-XednZ2d@supernews.com> <8f3a931d-9697-411b-8e8e-4d6d8f08005a@googlegroups.com> <98faaf9b-74c0-4d5a-b8f8-3c99211580af@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: n4wpt9zq8xR26Ttf9mo2BA.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Opera Mail/12.16 (Linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.forth:36240 On Mon, 02 Feb 2015 10:08:35 -0500, Alex McDonald wrote: > "Beauty is more important in computing than anywhere else in technology > because software is so complicated. Beauty is the ultimate defence > against complexity." While we're on the topic of "politeness", if you quote someone as obscure and unknown as a computer professor from Yale which the world only knows of his name because he was a victim of a mad math genius and bomber, himself a victim/agent of the CIA's MK ULTRA program, at least mention the guy's name ... I'd swear your only point in quoting him was to indirectly introduced MK ULTRA into the conversation. That seems to be a topic du jour of trolls. Rod Pemberton