You can't do that

[Brian K. White]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Esak" <john at valar.com>
To: "filePro mailing list" <filepro-list at seaslug.org>
Sent: Friday, September 02, 2005 9:39 AM
Subject: RE: You can't do that


>> >Lets throw away edits and do all the equivalent work in
>> processing, because
>> >you're the programmer and it's up to you to just write it how
>> you want it
>> >right?
>> >Can anyone possibly claim this would not be a huge downgrade if not a
>> >complete disaster?
>> >
>> >Brian K. White  --  brian at aljex.com  --  http://www.aljex.com/bkw/
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>>
>> I said nothing about removing the edits..that's putting words
>> into my mouth
>> and is a really stupid statement,  maybe it would have been
>> better stated to
>> say that I don't think it would provide anything that isn't able
>> to be done
>> already when written correctly and why add more unnecessary
>> features.. just
>> my personal opinion..
>>
>> Scott....
>
> Don't waste your breath Scott. It was precisely clear what you meant. The
> above comment comes from the same person who just twice in the past three
> messages claimed completely wrong things about filePro... then admitted 
> not
> even having tried the things he blamed filePro for doing incorrectly. In
> these messages he also invented a nasty new saying about how badly
> inconsistent filePro is... again being completely wrong. He was "stupid" 
> in

What is your problem?
How can you blather such inexcusable unfounded assumptions and plain lies 
and sleazy personal attacks in the same breath while claiming moral high 
ground?

As it happens, I was right on both counts. Both issues turned out not to be 
merely black or white and so what I said was perfectly true, and yet, not at 
other times and/or under other situations.

The @done variables thing was bug that existed at the time I wrote the 
tables I was talking about, but no longer exists in 5.0.14.
I very certainly did test it, just not _recently_.

The carriage-return on a form thing would do exactly as I guessed if the 
printer happened to have a certain, common option set in it.
And in any event, that comment was just a comment, a light remark with no 
intended weight behind it. More in the nature of a question.

I thank you for keeping me from second guessing myself when it comes to my 
eventual estimation of you.

I think you just don't have enough people around you with their own strong 
personalities and so everyone is always too dazzled by your charisma and 
brilliance to hold you accountable for the things you say.

Brian K. White  --  brian at aljex.com  --  http://www.aljex.com/bkw/
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