Castigating someone for his or her disability will not capacitate or empower him or her to suddenly have an ability. If I criticize my friend for his dyslexia, will he suddenly read better? Will telling him that he is just a lazy reader help him? Will his problem go away if I explain, ever so carefully, how not to read as he does, and how to read properly?

I have come to accept my limitations after struggling against them to no avail. The fact that you do not accept that I have such cannot change my limitations (though I might wish such were possible). Therefore, yes, your persistence in belaboring these points with me is becoming offensive. I recognize that I have both strengths and weaknesses. Mentioning them should not be taken as either haughtiness nor humility. It is simply part of the human condition. I am certainly not alone in having both. Unfortunately, disabilities cannot always be removed, whether medically, or by counsel, or by other methodologies.

If Raku can help me to code better, what's it to you? Do you wish to do my programming for me because you despise the way in which I do it? If so, be my guest. Share with me your email address and we might be able to arrange something. As it stands, I'm coding alone, with no hopes of anyone else ever getting involved or helping to maintain my code. If, then, I code in a manner that I can understand, why should this upset you? Honestly, I reached out to someone a few months back asking for help with refactoring my code. He responded that he's no longer taking on such projects. And that was that. And I'm back to doing it myself as best I can, with the limited abilities that I have. I certainly don't need castigation--I have a low enough estimation of myself as it is.

My coding has never been for me. I earn nothing for it. I'm just trying to help others--others who know nothing at all about programming, and who do not criticize the help they get.

Blessings,

~Polyglot~

In reply to Re^5: Ordering of parameters - Re^9: Converting Unicode by Polyglot
in thread Converting Unicode by BernieC

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