Author: Stephen A. Boak
Date: 00:31:21 08/22/05
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On August 21, 2005 at 15:11:28, Marc Lacrosse wrote:
>
>To take your own words I _already_ had comments that were "wholehearted
>(unreserved, unrestricted)" praise of zappa's play and achievements.
>
My apologies for upsetting you while making my point.
1. I was not discussing your words of praise for Zappa in other emails.
I presume you gave the greatest possible accolades (unreservedly) to Zappa's
author. Wonderful! You were magnificent! No problem with those postings
whatsoever.
2. It was your specific allegation of bias regarding Ed Schroeder's posting that
I found objectionable.
If praising a tremendous competitor who finishes first by a wide margin is
biased against another excellent competitor who finishes 2nd, then I guess one
cannot rendor unstinting praise to a clear victor, no matter how dominating the
performance.
Ed's praise for Zappa / Anthony Cozzie was loud & clear. He thought the
performance was tremendous. It was. Therefore, nothing biased about it ...
since Zappa & author deserved the victory wholeheartedly.
Zappa's performance was outstanding ... nearly perfect in results.
Fabien's program, Fruit, did very well. No need to make excuses for it, or to
try to elevate it's 2nd place finish into something more. Especially when that
detracts (intentionally or accidentally) from Zappa's victory.
Fabien isn't doing that. Nor should you.
If you wished to praise Fabien for Fruit's fine result, all you had to do was
start a new thread with a suitable heading--no problem.
Instead, you denigrated Ed & his post (improperly, IMO) and his generous praise
for Zappa's performance, which praise was fully earned by the programmer of that
exceedingly strong program.
There was no need to accuse Ed of bias, in order to lay a foundation for your
observations about how well Fruit did with one processor, etc.
3. My apologies also if I misinterpreted that specific posting of yours.
Perhaps your choice of word ("biased") was not truly reflective of the point you
were trying to make. Understandable possibility, if a poster is not a native
speaker of English.
Your English is generally quite good--not criticizing it.
4. Okay, I've burned my soapbox (I've stepped down).
Best regards,
--Steve
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