Re: I'd like to clear my name
I trust you will all forgive me if I attempt to defend myself here on the
list.
Derek Brown wrote:
> [snip] A new person wrote a message asking for help on
>storing sequences to a file. So I told him about a library I wrote. When
I
>logged on tonight we all got a message from Gabriel Boehme (who is working
on
>his own file IO library) saying I "shamelessly promoted my library" and how
I
>should have recommended the standard get and print routines. My library
>enhances those routines, especially for the storage of multiple routines.
>That would defeat the purpose of having it if I didn't recommend it to
>someone. And all I told him was I wrote a library, here's how you find it,
>and then I mentioned that it had binary and ASCII routines. That's it.
Hey
>Gabriel, get a life. I think you see this as some competition between us
>two. I don't work like that. I don't care who gets the credit, let's get
>the job done. I'm most familiar with my own library, so I recommended it.
>If the guy needs help he can ask me, the one who wrote it and knows it
best.
Actually, the only person who has been mentioning this alleged "competition"
between us, is you. Perhaps there is a reason for this?
I will attempt to ignore your insulting and presumptive commentary on my
character, and stick to the facts. I reprimanded you for exclusively
mentioning your own file I/O library in response to a request for general
file I/O help, primarily because you did not even mention get() or print().
This appeared to be a continuation of the self-promoting behavior you had
exhibited with your SPAM post earlier, so, rightly or wrongly, I took you to
task for it.
Your response was to assume that I was "afraid" of "competition" between the
two of us -- a false assumption which you then used to turn around and
attack me. My initial reaction was both anger and laughter -- anger that you
would attack me based on your unfounded assumptions, and laughter that you
would post such a thing to the list for all to see. In the end, I merely
suggested (in an indirect way) that you were probably projecting your own
"competitive" feelings onto me. Your subsequent posts have merely confirmed
this.
> Get this: A week ago I asked Gabriel if he wanted to work together to
make
>a very good file IO library. He turned it down. No big deal until now. I
>realize he doesn't want to do something unless he gets full credit. And
>he'll even go as low as to make me look bad in order to accomplish that
end.
>Ridiculus. Not relevant to programming Gabriel.
As I already made clear in my private response to you, our file I/O
libraries would be incompatible. Yours allows random-access storage of
variable-length Euphoria objects. Mine would allow binary- and random-access
to old-style fixed-length records as were used and created by C, Pascal,
QBasic, and many other languages. These two libraries would serve completely
different purposes -- yours for Euphoria random-access, mine for
backwards-compatibility with old-style fixed-length binary records. They
just aren't compatible.
Again, I would thank you not to make unfounded and inaccurate statements
about my character. You are making us *all* look bad with your childish
behavior.
> To be honest, I hope someone writes a library that is better than mine!
>That's what this list is all about, to help one another. I just
recommended
>my library because it gives you functions more advanced than the standard
>routines.
The help request was for general sequence I/O to files. You shouldn't hand
an "advanced" anything to a beginner without at least mentioning the basics.
>I SWEAR GABRIEL, YOU'RE BEING COUNTERPRODUCTIVE BY TRYING TO WORK
>AGAINST ME, BUT THAT'S FINE. WHAT YOU DID TO ME IS SHAMELESS. YOU
ATTACKED
>ME WHEN ALL I DID WAS RECOMMEND A LIBRARY THAT I WROTE. GET A LIFE! YOUR
>JEALOUSY HOLDS YOU BACK!
<LOL>! It's a good thing you're here to tell me these things about myself.
>I DON'T THINK LIKE YOU...
This is indeed true.
>I DON'T CARE ABOUT
>GETTING CREDIT. A GUY NEEDS HELP, SO I SUGGEST MY OWN LIBRARY. BIG DEAL.
You have turned this into a "big deal" with your repeated postings and
childish behavior.
> I've figured it out though... Ralf wrote EDOM, he attacked me. Gabriel
is
>writing his own, he attacked me. My guess is that they're working together
>(or there is some hidden agenda) and will soon have a pretty good file IO
>library out. I'll be the better man and suggest the following. Good luck.
>If it's better than random.e, then good. We've made progress. I don't
care
>who gets the credit.
<ROTFLOL>!!!!!
I really liked the bit about a "hidden agenda" going on between Ralf and me
-- that one was just priceless.
>Ralf and Gabriel, if you reply to this, you're just showing how immature
you are.
Not nearly as immature as you have already shown yourself to be here.
>Hey guys, how about a truce. Let's put this behind us.
?!! You do not attack someone, make slanderous and highly presumptive
statements about them, and then expect to be able to call a truce. You have
insulted me, lied about me, and wasted everybody's time with your whining. I
do not consider it unreasonable to demand an apology.
Be seeing you,
Gabriel Boehme
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