You both are exceptional characters, and positive ones I like to add. You both gave (and surely will give) much, much to the Perl community. And now we child (in the Perl sense) see you both argue this way - this is no good.

I'm not anglophone, as I said many times. And I understand that expressions in other languages cannot generally be translated - they could be ruder in English than in Italian. But what I cannot miss to observe is that BrowserUk never said that you're an academic that can only spit out hot air. BrowserUk was referring to the fact ("it") that the whole argument, without a solid backup as to where the optimisation could be shifted, reduced to something abstract and unfeasable in Perl^*.

To this extent, it seems perfectly in line with many other examples here in PM, where things are referred to as "crap", "nonsense" and similars (these are way ruder IMHO) by people that have too few time to be both effective and polite. Were it an ad-personam insult, I think it should have sounded like "I guess it's just your usual academic hot air" or something like this. Without "your usual", it seems not directed to you, but to what you said, thus perfectly in line with what one can expect to read here.

As a consequence, I also found reasonable that BrowserUk was sorry you felt insulted, but did not admit to have insulted you. I hope herveus will forgive me for citing something you replied in a further post, but I felt stunned by the fact that you didn't believe BrowserUk. This would sound as a big counter-slap to me - you're telling he's a liar.

I also think that something closer to an insult (whose weight I'm not able to measure in English) actually was in BrowserUk post - it was the word "shame". That would sound as a slap to me (something like: "you have to be ashame for this"), indeed, and I find it weird that you all (herveus included) were quite happy and forgiving about it. Listening parents argue teaches something, at least - something I won't ever find in books.

* Should I say perl here?

I also think that something closer to an insult (whose weight I'm not able to measure in English) actually was in BrowserUk post - it was the word "shame".

For the record. My use of the word "shame", is a habitual colloquialism that is a contraction of the phrase; "That's a shame". It is (always) intended to convey my disappointment, and not as a slap to the recipient.

In this case, I was disappointed that I was not going to learn something useful, as I had genuinely thought I was going to from the earlier post.

For the rest of your post, I would say that you have hit the nail exactly on the head.

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Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error.

Lingua non convalesco, consenesco et abolesco. -- Rule 1 has a caveat! -- Who broke the cabal?

"Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority".

The "good enough" maybe good enough for the now, and perfection maybe unobtainable, but that should not preclude us from striving for perfection, when time, circumstance or desire allow.

Just misguided by a big "Shame on you" I once saw in a post. But I bet that the "on you" really makes the difference - and my TOEFL goes farther...

Flavio
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Don't fool yourself.

Quite obviously, that is what it usually means when people say something like "That's a shame". Just a way to express one's disappointment. We are living our own era, and daily expressions should be understood within context. Go back 200 years, the same expression could well put one down to the bottom of the society, but not nowadays. The fact is that you had every reason to feel disappointed. The monk started this sub-thread gave a reply that was full of pointless anger (only because someone claimed that his module was slow, which is a fact) and baseless false confidence, and that was quickly revealed in subsequent posts of his in the same thread.

What a shame!

As the OP actually tested your Stream.pm module, and the code using it was 100+ times slower than a piece of very casual code, what were absurd were really those sentences you spit.

The person who said "academic hot air" was wrong for one thing. There was hot air, but no academic value at all.