Re: ion-3rc-09f911029d74e35bd84156c5635688c0.tar.gz

> My impression is that, these days there is much less stupid questions
> on this list than there were three years ago, which makes me think
> that users tend to become less of lusers, no?

I must diagree with this point. Luser questions on ion3's ML only
means there are less lusers that use ion3 and bother to post stupid
questions on the ML.

I think a pure luser attitude is to be discouraged at the first
difficulty, so they'd change to another WM before posting their lame
questions. Most of them would not even try such a strange WM (or a
using a non-"mainstream" OS) in the first place.

But you're probably right if you meant "there are less *ion* lusers
now than before".


I don't know about the user/lusers ratio, though I am pretty sure it
is getting lower and lower over time (foldoc:// september that never
ended).

I mostly develop in Ruby and Rails, and the apparent ease to develop
in such a language gathers many, many, many would-be developers (aged
14 to 18 most of the time) that does not have the slightest clue about
what "Object Oriented" means, why MVC stands for, or even why is their
commented code not working.

Reading doc is so painful, when you feel anyone must give you the
right answer and do the work for you.


So yes, in my mind, lusers' number is growing.

-- 
Sylvain Abelard,
Railer Rubyist. Epita MTI 2008.