On Nov 22, 5:12 pm, Raffael Cavallaro <raffaelcavall...@pas.despam.s.il.vous.plait.mac.com> wrote: > On 2010-11-22 11:25:34 -0500, scattered said: > > > And you don't think that [JH] could write a book about Haskell > > if he honestly came to think that it were a superior all-aroung > > language? > > Until he actually does, he has a financial interest in trash-talking > Haskell. This makes anything he says about Haskell suspect. > > > The fact that he *didn't* mindlessly reject [musical note lang] in favor of > > [Irish Ship Of The Desert] when [musical note lang] came out (despite > > the fact that at the time his company > > was deeply (exclusively?) invested in [Irish Ship Of The Desert] and > > arguably had a vested > > interest in having [musical note lang] fail to gain support) suggests > > that he is able > > to fairly evaluate the merits of other languages. > > No, it suggests that he saw that supporting the Irish Ship Of The > Desert meant going up against Microsoft, so he jumped to the MS > supported variant of the Donut Dromedary. > > You miss the fundamental point; having a financial interest in the > outcome of a debate makes anything that person says an advertisement > for his financial interests, not a fair assessment.
There is a well-known name for such illogical reasoning: ad hominem. When a person poses an /argument/, nothing personal outside of the /argument/ is relevant. Thus, your claim that "anything that person says ..." is not only obvious hyperbole it is also illogical. It is a common refuge of those who cannot support their position with fact and logic. On more than one occasion Jon Harrop has all but crushed Ertugrul in this very forum with /source code/; that is as objective as it gets. KHD -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list