On 02/12/2011 07:12 PM, retard wrote:
You're just arguing against his principles: "..besides arguments ad populum are fallacious" http://www.digitalmars.com/webnews/newsgroups.php? art_group=digitalmars.D&article_id=129453
Yes, I use ad populum all the time for its effectiveness.I'll try to wriggle out by saying it was not an argument for "iota" but rather counterargument to the ad populum argument that "iota" is bad since it exists only in the long-forgotten APL and an unknown C++ extension.
