Re: No. It is lucid! Re: Could this be any more obscure?

2018-10-03 Thread ToddAndMargo
On 10/2/18 9:02 PM, Richard Hainsworth wrote: The Perl6 community is warm, generous, and intellectually inspiring. Those virtues should be defended against unseemly and intemperate language. Calling a documentation writer a 'jerk' is wrong. Agreed. They are very much so. And since you are a

Re: No. It is lucid! Re: Could this be any more obscure?

2018-10-02 Thread Richard Hainsworth
This could only too easily become a flame war, so I am replying once and will not answer again unless it is about substance. The Perl6 community is warm, generous, and intellectually inspiring. Those virtues should be defended against unseemly and intemperate language. Calling a documentation

Re: No. It is lucid! Re: Could this be any more obscure?

2018-10-02 Thread ToddAndMargo
On 9/30/18 9:11 PM, Richard Hainsworth wrote: But I thought you just implied you wanted pro stuff, not beginner stuff. I have no idea how you got that out of what I said. I want the beginners stuff included with the pro stuff. So what is wanted is 'common user' stuff (see below). You are

Re: No. It is lucid! Re: Could this be any more obscure?

2018-10-02 Thread ToddAndMargo
On 10/1/18 4:17 PM, Brandon Allbery wrote: That just sounds like the backing store got restored from backup, losing anything added after the backup was taken. Which is not the best way to do things (incrementals are nice), but if things had gone wrong enough might have been the best they could

Re: No. It is lucid! Re: Could this be any more obscure?

2018-10-01 Thread Brandon Allbery
That just sounds like the backing store got restored from backup, losing anything added after the backup was taken. Which is not the best way to do things (incrementals are nice), but if things had gone wrong enough might have been the best they could do. On Mon, Oct 1, 2018 at 7:13 PM ToddAndMarg

Re: No. It is lucid! Re: Could this be any more obscure?

2018-10-01 Thread ToddAndMargo
On 9/30/18 9:11 PM, Richard Hainsworth wrote: your 'perl' box was corrupted. Somewhere the imap daemons got appeased and suddenly a day later, I watched it all come blazing back. Hopefully tomorrow I will get a chance to read over what yo wrote. By the way, the eMail I send about the thread

No. It is lucid! Re: Could this be any more obscure?

2018-09-30 Thread Richard Hainsworth
Todd, I've already added to this conversation given that your 'perl' box was corrupted. But when I read this post last week, I felt it needed some response. You actually have touched on some deep issues. Please allow for some humour below. First off, courses, beginners books, and the lik