Sorry to insist but I feel pretty strongly about this kind of accusation.

On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 11:21 AM, Josh Berry <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> >> On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 1:31 PM, Cédric Beust ♔ <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >> > A Perl enthusiast who's written three blog posts in two years says he
> >> > doesn't like a new language and we should pay attention because...?
> >> > Anyway, even if I focus on the message and not the messenger, I can't
> >> > say I
> >> > see a lot of value in this post, why did you find it noticeable?
> >>
> >> Don't know why, but I found how you managed to turn an admission of an
> >> ad hom into an insult rather amusing.  :)
> >
> > Er... wha?
> > Rereading what I wrote, I see fact, fact, a question and a personal
> opinion.
> > Where do you see any attack?!?
>
> I guess it is that I did not see the transition from an ad hom tone in
> the first part where you were belittling perl and the blogger


Where do I belittle Perl?!? Where do I make fun of the blogger? You're
seeing things.


> , to no
> tone where you asked why the person found this interesting.  You even
> called out how you were making a direct ad hom attack


Again, there was no hominem attack, unless you think that "A tennis expert
just made a comment on a football game" is an insult toward the tennis
expert.

Seriously.

-- 
Cédric

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