Walter Bright wrote:
John Reimer wrote:
Putting it bluntly, that's also the exact attitude that will distance
people from the language. Show disdain for them, and you are
guaranteed to alienate people no matter how strong your argument is.
That, and such disdain is usually not warranted because it is reactive
to a shallow response and fails to recognize the deeper social issues
hinted by such a response.
Back in the early DOS days, there was a lot of disdain for the platform.
"Real" programmers used unix workstations, not toy 16 bit PCs. It turned
out, though, that most of the fortunes were made programming for DOS,
and eventually those programs and programmers migrated to 32 bits and
brought the industry with it. DOS was the "gateway" programming platform.
Yah but due to other factors than its technical qualities. Leaving those
out of the story puts things in an odd light.
Andrei
