Dr.Ruud wrote:
Raymond Wan schreef:
"If you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all".
I didn't read anything not nice, I only saw well meant critique. Some
people just can't accept their own misunderstandings, and then start
blaming the messenger. Most people are of course a little like that -
phases of the moon - but Canon proved to be just one of those extreme
cases.
Well, I suppose we may have a difference of opinion, of course, and
maybe "stupid" can be translated into other languages as something far
kinder. But for me, "That is very stupid" would be classified in the
"not nice" category. Calling someone is stupid or someone's actions as
being stupid doesn't demonstrate someone is stupid but that we haven't
spent enough time to know the person to find out what they know that we
might now. Yes, perhaps the statement might have "meant well" when it
was being formulated, but what appeared in the messages was...well, "not
nice"...
A teacher or lecturer talking about Perl has to deal with all range of
questions and they are paid to answer and we hope that they never show
their frustrations at even the most poorly worded question.
For us on this mailing list, we have no obligation to provide an answer,
so why not skip the message and move on to the next one? To continue
your analogy, there is no one designated messenger...if there was one on
this list, s/he might be insane by now. :-) So, why compound someone's
problem with Perl with a feeling that they're stupid (or what they are
doing is stupid)?
Ray
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