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Subject: Re: should be an unwritten policy here

Author: Alastair Scott

Date: 04:10:55 10/20/03

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On October 19, 2003 at 09:10:13, K. Burcham wrote:

>"non programmers can not make negative comments about programmers"
>
>I hate to see anyone that posts here, bad-mouth a programmer when they do not
>own a program and could not own if they wanted. at this forum, extreme respect
>should be shown to all programmers.

No. Criticism is intrinsic to engineering and, as Richard Feynman once said (I
paraphrase enormously), "I will start by asking stupid questions; perhaps I
might accidentally ask a profound question".

Heaven preserve us from the ambience of two mailing lists, to which I am a
horrified subscriber, where the (musician) participants spend much of the time
praising one another and everyone runs for cover at the slightest hint of
dissent!

Alastair



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