OpenEuphoria

Re: 300 Statements and an apologie

• Posted by Ralf Nieuwenhuijsen <nieuwen at XS4ALL.NL> Apr 28, 1998
• 659 views

>Ralf, why you always sound so rude? My grandfather says:
>"If you have nothing good to say, don't say anything".

    Well, I suppose my English sounds quite direct, but in Dutch I would
sound a lot more ironic and I suppose a bit more friendly. Unfortunately
often, people say I sound tense, angry or rude, and this will prolly be the
case. I'm don't fill my sentences with words like should, could, may have,
possibly. And any other word that *may* (hey, I use it) complex my sentences
upto I point where I can not be 100% sure of what I am saying.

>I think everyone was the right to ask for what he wants. It's up to Rob to
>listen him (not you).

    It's wasn't ment as a flame, I'm sorry, but I did find the question a
bit insulting towards RDS, but it is indeed maybe not my duty to respond to
that, and leave it to RDS.

>>Apology
>>~~~~~~~~~~
>
>I won't quote your text here. My grandfather's wisdom applies here also to
>all the religious thread.
>Now, let's (all of us) finish talking about what we think and what we think
>about each other and let's talk about data compresion, portable GUI,
>namespaces, etc...

That's why I apologized, it had to see this coming when I said that..
althrough at first it seems it was going ok, no one felt insulted, etc.

And to the Pastor, I really didn't mean to offend people like you with my
response. I just get this very disturbing feeling when putting a christian
comment at the end of a message becomes a hype. I didn't mean to insult any
one with it, I too sometimes get carried away in a hype.

And to give this some euphoristic contents:

I'm in for enumeration: (would solve the namespacing problem for most
constants!)

--=Code=--

enum color as YELLOW, BLACK & DARK,  RED
color = YELLOW     -- color = 1
color = DARK           -- color = 2
? BLACK                  -- writes '2' to the screen

if color < DARK then
    puts (1,"Color is either yellow or black")
    color = BLACK
end if

if color = 2 then color = color + 1 end if
? color         -- writes '3' to the screen

--= End of Code=--


Ralf Nieuwenhuijsen
nieuwen at xs4all.nl

PS About the moral guide lines in EDOM2, please don't respond on the list
server, or better yet forget about them, just had a major discussion with a
friend and I just put all my thoughts there.. what can I say I'm an addict
for discussion, but please, by private mail.