From: John Perry <cantanima.perry@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Carbon
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2022 10:55:29 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5f819cdd-e763-4a96-aed5-545d57edac23n@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <993af397-b615-44e7-ae8d-ec706f9b6098n@googlegroups.com>
On Thursday, August 25, 2022 at 4:14:02 AM UTC-5, Fabien Chouteau wrote:
> On Wednesday, July 27, 2022 at 7:24:58 PM UTC+2, John McCabe wrote:
> > The result is that someone who appears to have
> > very little software development experience misinterpreted the comments
> > about half-baked features and locked the thread.
>
> I think they did the right thing. And provided explanations:
>
> > There are obviously changes that we'd like to make to C++, but calling C++ "half-baked" is demeaning to those who have invested years of work into that project.
>
> >> TBH, this whole project just appears to be Google trying to detract from Rust
> > This is disrespectful to everyone working on the Carbon Language project.
>
> I agree with both.
I can agree with the statements you've quoted, and I can agree with their closing the thread (they didn't delete it!) but he also called them "aggressive" statements, and that's simply untrue. Assertive and strongly-worded? sure, but aggressive?
> I don't know if the people working on Carbon had a bad opinion about Ada before, but sure do now.
> In the end I think that you did a lot of damage to Ada, its reputation and its community...
Do language designers really draw conclusions about the quality of other languages, or even about the user community of other languages, from a handful of posts by one zealous member?
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2022-07-22 21:13 Carbon Gautier write-only address
2022-07-23 9:09 ` Carbon John McCabe
2022-07-23 13:14 ` Carbon Dmitry A. Kazakov
2022-07-23 13:49 ` Carbon Stéphane Rivière
2022-07-24 9:09 ` Carbon Jeffrey R.Carter
2022-07-24 9:22 ` Carbon Dmitry A. Kazakov
2022-07-24 9:38 ` Carbon Luke A. Guest
2022-07-26 17:31 ` Carbon John McCabe
2022-07-27 8:10 ` Carbon Luke A. Guest
2022-07-27 17:24 ` Carbon John McCabe
2022-07-27 20:00 ` Carbon Luke A. Guest
2022-07-28 23:48 ` Carbon Nasser M. Abbasi
2022-07-29 4:34 ` Carbon Devin Rozsas
2022-07-29 11:03 ` Carbon John McCabe
2022-07-29 19:05 ` Carbon Gautier write-only address
2022-07-30 9:16 ` Carbon John McCabe
2022-07-30 8:11 ` Carbon G.B.
2022-07-29 18:59 ` Carbon Gautier write-only address
2022-07-30 4:26 ` Carbon Nasser M. Abbasi
2022-07-30 9:21 ` Carbon John McCabe
2022-07-30 1:40 ` Carbon Paul Rubin
2022-07-30 4:23 ` Carbon Nasser M. Abbasi
2022-08-06 14:18 ` Carbon dennis knorr
2022-08-06 17:48 ` Carbon A.J.
2022-08-07 9:08 ` Carbon G.B.
2022-08-08 21:38 ` Carbon dennis knorr
2022-08-08 22:28 ` Carbon Dmitry A. Kazakov
2022-08-09 4:12 ` Carbon Randy Brukardt
2022-08-09 6:05 ` Carbon Paul Rubin
2022-08-09 7:22 ` Carbon John McCabe
2022-08-10 1:19 ` Carbon John Perry
2022-08-10 6:20 ` Carbon Paul Rubin
2022-08-10 17:58 ` Carbon John Perry
2022-08-10 18:10 ` Carbon Dennis Lee Bieber
2022-08-10 8:24 ` Carbon Luke A. Guest
2022-08-10 17:59 ` Carbon John Perry
2022-08-18 1:02 ` Carbon Randy Brukardt
2022-08-27 9:49 ` Carbon John McCabe
2022-07-27 20:39 ` Carbon Simon Wright
2022-07-27 23:30 ` Carbon John McCabe
2022-08-25 9:14 ` Carbon Fabien Chouteau
2022-08-25 17:55 ` John Perry [this message]
2022-08-26 18:59 ` Carbon Olivier Henley
2022-08-26 20:23 ` Carbon Paul Rubin
2022-08-26 20:59 ` Carbon Olivier Henley
2022-08-26 21:40 ` Carbon Paul Rubin
2022-08-26 22:18 ` Carbon Olivier Henley
2022-08-27 0:06 ` Carbon Paul Rubin
2022-08-28 0:30 ` Carbon John McCabe
2022-08-28 1:32 ` Carbon Paul Rubin
2022-08-28 8:57 ` Carbon John McCabe
2022-08-28 17:34 ` Carbon G.B.
2022-09-01 6:46 ` Carbon J-P. Rosen
2022-09-02 14:18 ` Carbon G.B.
2022-09-02 14:59 ` Carbon J-P. Rosen
2022-09-02 17:55 ` Carbon Niklas Holsti
2022-09-02 18:45 ` Carbon J-P. Rosen
2022-09-03 0:23 ` Carbon Randy Brukardt
2022-08-28 20:43 ` Carbon Paul Rubin
2022-08-29 8:57 ` Carbon John McCabe
2022-08-28 0:14 ` Carbon John McCabe
2022-08-28 17:39 ` Carbon G.B.
2022-08-28 18:24 ` Carbon Paul Rubin
2022-08-26 23:21 ` Carbon Jeffrey R.Carter
2022-08-27 11:27 ` Carbon Rod Kay
2022-08-27 15:20 ` Carbon John Perry
2022-08-27 23:47 ` Carbon John McCabe
2022-08-27 23:39 ` Carbon John McCabe
2022-07-27 8:45 ` Carbon Luke A. Guest
2022-07-27 13:16 ` Carbon Patrick Georgi
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