Re: date of question
Re: date of question
- Subject: Re: date of question
- From: "Gary (Lists)" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 20:14:28 -0400
"Mark J. Reed" wrote:
> Uhm, guys? What's with all the harsh?
I'll take "realist" teaching over your top-posting, any day. ;)
The enforcement of a community's standards can not be undertaken by those
who, by their continued action, refuse to adopt the community's standards.
> I mean, I thought the point of the list was to help people learn to use
> AppleScript, or learn to use it better, and that includes total newbies. Was I
> wrong?
Being a realist is not a bad thing.
You can not program in a language you don't know.
You must do something to learn. A book is a good idea.
(Would you propose that new AS programmers NOT read a book, or just that no
one should tell to to do so?)
There is a natural and long-standing social tension between "open lists" and
the cry of "RTFM". Are lists places where one should go for help, or for
free labor? That constant tension is natural, and productive, IMO, as a
pedagogical force. (Not every person responds to that pedagogical force in
the same way, mind you.)
Mark, you're very new around here, and I think your contribution has been
excellent in content. However, your read of the social dynamic might be a
bit off.
Those posts you cited are not "harsh" in a disparaging way, from this
reader's perspective.
--
Gary
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