From: Mark Wotton <mrak@cs.usyd.edu.au>
Cc: Caml <caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Jihad
Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 02:37:23 +1100 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0111080235330.23963-100000@hons.cs.usyd.edu.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <003801c1679c$641966f0$d0c201cf@XENO>
On Wed, 7 Nov 2001, Eric Newhuis wrote:
> A quick note on my potentially offensive style...
>
> I am sincere. The term fits my personal experience with
> ObjectiveCaml. It is jihad, i.e. "struggle". I am sorry if others
> may take issue with my use of metephor.
>
> My intentions were never to offend. And I will not retract.
On a purely practical level, you may be well advised not to use religious
terms. The perception of functional programmers is already that we're all
crazed zealots: using religious terminology doesn't help that at all.
mrak
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-11-07 15:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-11-07 14:41 Eric Newhuis
2001-11-07 15:37 ` Mark Wotton [this message]
2001-11-08 3:09 ` Elan
2001-11-08 17:39 ` Will Benton
2001-11-07 22:50 ` Vitaly Lugovsky
2001-11-08 14:07 ` Julian Assange
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2001-11-08 21:13 Bauer, Robert
2001-11-08 21:36 ` Vitaly Lugovsky
2001-11-08 22:17 ` Mark Wotton
2001-11-08 23:20 ` Vitaly Lugovsky
2001-11-08 17:23 Dave Berry
2001-11-08 17:47 ` Eric Newhuis
2001-11-08 20:16 ` Vitaly Lugovsky
2001-11-07 18:02 Bauer, Robert
2001-11-07 7:20 Eric Newhuis
2001-11-13 6:35 ` David Fox
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