Re: Apathetic and Lurkers

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ted Ashton" <[email protected]>
To: "Greg Rollins" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, August 07, 2000 2:03 PM
Subject: Re: Apathetic and Lurkers


> Thus it was written in the epistle of Greg Rollins,
> > I am a lurker.  I am attempting to observe the overhaul of my personal
> > favorite programming language.  When I was a kid I liked to hang out in
a
> > mechanics shop while the wrenches overhauled the various motors in the
shop.
> > This was in the 60's and 70's when an overhaul usually meant bolting on
high
> > performance additions to the family car.  I'm here with the same
childish
> > curiosity.  I'm watching the activity.  Speaking as a 37 year old kid
it's
> > fascinating.  I'm not apathetic about the rewrite, I just haven't seen
> > anything yet that I really feel strongly about.  I'm sure that is to
come.
> > At some point I would even like to help, but I haven't seen a place
where I
> > could make a positive contribution.  Just my $.02 worth.
>
> Greg,
>   Glad you're here--don't give up hope :-).  The "lurker=apathy" thing is
as
> old as the hills and gets debunked every time it comes up.  By the by, if
> something does come up you'd like to say your piece about, feel free--
> quite a
> few of us in the fray haven't had much experience with the wrenches but
care
> enough about the car running well to tell the mechanics what the funny
sound
> was like :-).
>
Nice analogy, and thanks for the encouragement.

GCR
> Ted
> --
> Ted Ashton ([email protected]), Info Sys, Southern Adventist University
>           ==========================================================
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results
> until they have been confirmed by theory.
>                                         -- Eddington, Sir Arthur
(1882-1944)
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