Re: A little thought about kindness (huh?)

I see no personal attack.

I don't know why you got so mad

I find that quite a conclusion you jumped to over there. I supposed it is possible that merlyn got "so mad" but I see no convincing evidence of that from what was written.

merlyn criticized the code and the posting of it. I didn't see him call the poster names or apply any adjectives to any person at all.

Please don't try to read emotion into text-only on-line communication. It is a very error-prone activity.

- tye

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Re: Re: A little thought about kindness (huh?) by Nkuvu (Priest) on Feb 19, 2003 at 20:23 UTC
My feelings exactly. I see no personal attack. I do see a criticism of code. If someone looks at my code and says "That's a stupid way to do it", they are probably not commenting on my intelligence. If someone looks at my code and says "You're stupid and your code is ugly", then I might take that as a personal criticism. (But I'd still take a second (or more likely, third or fourth) peek at my code to see that it is OK)	[reply]

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by Nkuvu (Priest) on Feb 19, 2003 at 20:23 UTC

If someone looks at my code and says "That's a stupid way to do it", they are probably not commenting on my intelligence.

If someone looks at my code and says "You're stupid and your code is ugly", then I might take that as a personal criticism. (But I'd still take a second (or more likely, third or fourth) peek at my code to see that it is OK)

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