Re: Re: "I asked about dependency injection in C++ and people made fun of me"

jens bendig <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.programming.language-of-the-year
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Opps, sorry, wrong thread.

Jens
Am 11.04.2008 um 14:38 schrieb jens bendig:

> Hi Guys,
>
>
> could it be that I focused this Discussion on the term "culture"?
> Let me add, that with "culture", I don´t mean questions like the  
> use of a technique or
> pattern to program. I simply meaned the ability to discuss about  
> that and within discussion,
> everybody taking part gains knowledge. Even the guy with most  
> knowledge in the group.
>
> Knowlege comes from making, thinking and Communicating. If you  
> leave one of those three activities out,
> you develop yourself slowly and not very far. And that´s what I  
> mean with "Culture". Maybe  I was not clear
> because I am not a native speaker.
>
> Yours,
>
> Jens
>
>
> Am 11.04.2008 um 03:36 schrieb DanHinojosa:
>> --- In [email protected], "philip reed"  
>> <philipreedtech@...> wrote:
>> >
>> > Also, the accusation about the Dependency Injection question wasn't
>> > that he was too much of a noob. It's that he was "clearly trying to
>> > be a smart-ass by using complicated terminology that only few  
>> people
>> > are acquainted with, clearly on purpose."
>> >
>> > Obviously that's an unwarranted inference, but what are the
>> > assumptions that would lead to it? That Dan, coming onto a the C++
>> > usenet group for the first time, is "clearly" aware of the set of
>> > knowledge that would be assumed to someone on the list and  
>> "clearly on
>> > purpose" throwing around something that *Dan's supposed to know*  
>> isn't
>> > part of the canon of knowledge that experienced C++ developers are
>> > supposed to know.
>> >
>> > I'm really curious to what extent Dan explained his background and
>> > desire to "relearn" C++. From the tone of his post here and the way
>> > he explained himself, I have to believe that he did and that it was
>> > clear that he was drawing on more recent experience from other
>> > languages and asking because he hadn't worked with C++ recently. To
>> > me the inference that he was asking in bad faith just to "be a
>> > smart-ass" is incredibly bizarre, albeit not necessarily  
>> surprising!
>> >
>> > I have to imagine that the person who wrote that response has  
>> his ego
>> > far too invested in being the "expert" on C++ and feels exceedingly
>> > threatened when someone brings in knowledge that threatens his
>> > self-perception as liege of that fiefdom.
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> >
>> > Philip
>> >
>>
>> Hey Philip,
>>
>> On the first post, I had explained that I was relearning C++ from
>> years of being on other languages (Java & Ruby).
>> The second post was simply as a subject"
>> Is it in the C++ culture to use Dependency Injection/Inversion of
>> Control?" The body of the post was "Just that simple question....out
>> of curiosity."
>> The person who went ballistic read my first post and was familiar
>> (hopefully) with my background.
>>
>> That's just why I was shocked.
>>
>> If you are interested....
>> http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.c++/browse_frm/thread/ 
>> 33fb97a5b61e8b71
>>
>> It's USENET. I guess I shouldn't have been shocked considering that
>> it was USENET.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
> Dipl.-Phys. Jens Bendig
> motionDesign im Technologiepark Universität Bremen
> http://www.motionDesign.de
> [email protected]
>
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>
>
>
> 

Dipl.-Phys. Jens Bendig
motionDesign im Technologiepark Universität Bremen
http://www.motionDesign.de
[email protected]

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