> I think it's certain that the original poster didn't realize Vadim is not
> a native English speaker, which is why I made my comment (to clue him in).
> Vadim didn't take my comment as criticism, as his follow-on post
> made clear
> (he got the joke). I don't know from your post if you thought I
> was adding
> to the criticism or not, but I can say with certainty I wasn't. In my
> previous life as the founder of a company specializing in optimizing
> compilers for minicomputers, I employed Dutch (who spoke and wrote English
> than I or anyone here), Polish, Vietmanese and other nationals who were
> excellent hackers and who all spoke better English than I spoke their
> language - or cooked their cuisine or even followed their table customs,
> for that matter.
Just for the record, I apologise for criticising Valim's grammar. I didn't
realise that he was a non-native speaker - nor that it was even his code. I
just thought I should point out that spelling error (propably) given that
there was a thread going on about spelling in some error messages...
Chris
