Evaluating opinions (was Re: "compile" vs. "tokenize" (wasRe:Password Problem))

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 01:19:51PM -0400, John Esak wrote:
> Again, and I'll say it for the last time... I think you know very well what
> you are doing... I just don't know why... you have some agenda for
> constantly knocking filePro and Ken in negative ways... only you know why
> you do it. Did filePro hurt you very badly once in your youth? :-)  Perhaps,
> the fact (as you once stated) that you only use it (for the last 15 years to
> make your living) because your boss forces you to... is what has you so
> angry. You feel that if you had taken those years to learn some other more
> mainstream development tool that you would be in a better place, earning
> more money... or just better off generally... has you being the way you are
> here.  Can't be told from your messages. All that we see is the obvious and
> constant denigration. You keep calling it "helping with the development..."
> :-) But all the rest of us seem to be able to do that without the
> always-under-the-surface great disrespect and distaste you always show for
> the product. I'm sorry Jay, but everyone here is always on about honesty...
> that is how I see it.

The money is where it is.  I do the work the clients need done, and
that often means that new development will get done infilePro against
my better judgement because interfacing it, or worse, rewriting the
entire thing in something else, just isn't practical.

The fact that I'm often stuck in the environment grates occasionally,
yes.  But I don't make these problems up, nor do I invent the (total
lack of) speed with which they get fixed.

You assume whatever you like from my tone of voice, John.  

The problems are there, and they are problems.

My opinions about them carry more weight than kens, if you want my
honest opinion, because a) I am *not* the guy who wrote it, b) I use it
every week to do real work for real end users, but most importantly c)
I'm a paying customer... which argument I see you conveniently clipped
wihotut comment.

Twice.

Flogging *me* about honesty?

Let's go back to not talking to each other, ok John?

Cheers,
-- jra
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