Flame wars (was Re: Announcement: Homage to SWI-Prolog)

Please stop this.  Criticism is good, but please make sure
it is constructive.  People invest time and effort trying to
help each other and offer things for sharing.  It is good to
point at mistakes, but be precise, explain what is wrong, why
it is wrong and (most important) how is can be done better.

I hate being a policeman, but if this continues I'll block
people from the list.

	Thanks --- Jan


On 07/26/2013 12:52 PM, Ceyhun Ciper wrote:
> You are not worth it.
>
> This SWISH business has already been quite a waste of time...
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 8:47 AM, Michael Richter <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/repartee
>>
>> I know English quite well, thank you.  (Wanna try being wrong about my use
>> of "é" next or will you get out while the getting's good?)
>>
>> I also happen to know German, French and Mandarin, by the way.  The reason
>> I chose the spelling I did?  Because I was communicating in *English*,
>> not in French (or German or Mandarin).  好新鲜啊！  (Go ahead to Google
>> Translate.  I'll wait so I can laugh at you for being wrong there as well.)
>>
>> None of this having anything at all to do, incidentally, with your
>> behaviour in this thread thus far.  Behaviour which thus far makes you look
>> like you're in the slow lane of your middle school's academic track.  For
>> example:
>>
>>
>> *"I like this kind of self-referencing emails."
>> *
>>
>> For someone who (incorrectly) gets his nose out of joint about people whom
>> you incorrectly believe don't know languages you show an astonishingly poor
>> grasp of the language you're pretending to communicate in.  One
>> content-free sentence in your email and you couldn't even get it right.
>> (Hint: subject/verb agreement is an important part of English grammar.)
>>
>> So, child, do you *really* want to start a fight about language with me?
>> (Hint: no, you really don't.)
>>
>>
>>
>> On 26 July 2013 10:54, Ceyhun Ciper <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Tu te prends pas pour une merde, non plus?
>>>
>>> ps: Don't use words that you don't know how to spell, especially in a
>>> language that you don't know.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 4:56 PM, Michael Richter <[email protected]>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Waitwhat?!  Am I actually seeing the grade school "I know you are but
>>>> what am I?"-style response here?  Really?  That's what passes for witty
>>>> repartée these days?
>>>>
>>>> You may wish to try for something advanced here, sir.  I strongly
>>>> recommend "I'm rubber and you're glue".
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 25 July 2013 21:12, Ceyhun Ciper <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I like this kind of self-referencing emails.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 4:10 AM, Toby Thain <[email protected]
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 23/07/13 10:56 PM, Ceyhun Ciper wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> A good effort in its infancy.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Saving and updating do not work, therefore no sharing. I sWISH you
>>>>> had
>>>>>>> stabilized it before delivery but I guess this is not good practice
>>>>> at
>>>>>>> universities.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>>> Ceyhun Ciper
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ps: Kudos for making it open source; I understand you germinate the
>>>>>>> initial
>>>>>>> idea and leave it to your assistants to finish the solution; maybe
>>>>> the
>>>>>>> community will be able to assist you.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> pps: Too much effort wasted on the UI embellishment side (at the
>>>>> detriment
>>>>>>> of stability).
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> You missed mentioning one of the key joys of making open source
>>>>> software:
>>>>>> After hard work, tolerating emails packed with rudeness from lazy,
>>>>>> non-contributing strangers.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --T
>>>>>>
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>>>> Chinese people. It's not been about our revenue or profit or whatnot."
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