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RE: Question
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RE: Question


  • Subject: RE: Question
  • From: "Smith, Bradley" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2001 16:11:25 -0000

> If you can read plain English, you might have noticed "almost
> surely"
> (instead of "surely") and "I don't think" (instead of "I
> know" you are
> imposing on me here). That's called "probability".

You still made an assumption that you are right and he is wrong.

> Nobody's interested "IN _YOUR_ OPINION". Anybody _should_ be
> interested in
> facts, though, and those are that

Why would people be less interested in my opinion that yours? At least I
stated it as an opinion. You state your opinions as fact.

> (i) the _complete_ Cocoa consists of just 226 classes (mentioned in

What has that got to do with this guy's problem?

> Well, going back to what I said -- "I am pretty positive
> that's the main
> raison'd'etre of this list: to tell people who are not
> experienced enough
> what they're doing wrong, to help them to do it better and
> with less effort
> next time".

No. It's a cocoa development list. It's for people who are developing cocoa
apps to ask for the help of others who have more expecience in developing
cocoa apps. It's not a place to belittle other people's experience of other
development platforms or languages.

> SB> Cocoa newbie,
> ...
> SB> fan of template classes
> SB> fan of multiple inheritance
> SB> fan of strong typing
>
> Sounds quite like
>
> Mac OS newbie, fan of MS DOS command line, fan of mouseless
> interfaces, fan
> of 8.3 filenames.
>

Actually it sounds nothing like that as you well know.

Brad


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