Re: Carbon

[Olivier Henley <olivier.henley@gmail.com>]

On Friday, August 26, 2022 at 4:23:49 PM UTC-4, Paul Rubin wrote:
> Olivier Henley writes: 
> > This is not aggression. We need to stop relativizing definitions.
> I would call the first post somewhat aggressive, though not intensely 
> so. (...) The second post came across to me as even more aggressive ("Can you 
> please specify...").

Sir respectfully, in my opinion, aggression is not : 
me_kid: "mom ... someone aggressed me at school today."
mom: "what, he showed you a finger, he told you names, what.!?"
me_kid: "no, he asked me to specify... in writings"

> > Hordes of people wrote that (along those lines --> "Ada typing is 
> > nonsense, crazy, mad, stupid, etc") and nobody in this community ever 
> > canceled them by weaponizing, eg.: "it is demeaning to people working 
> > on the ARG" ... therefore this is aggression.
> This is a general, open discussion forum, not the equivalent of an 
> internal forum of the ARG itself. I could understand if an internal ARG 
> forum locked threads calling Ada typing nonsense, crazy, mad, stupid, etc.

Make sense. I never thought of a Github discussion as something "that" official, but sure I stand corrected.

> > If there is no intentional wordplay between "Rust" and "Carbon", I 
> > will be damned.
> Maybe you are right about that, but it hadn't occurred to me. Rust is 
> iron oxide and carbon is a different element.

"Because steel is a mixture of iron and carbon, it will definitely rust." 
(https://www.apx-enclosures.com/apx-blog/metals-that-dont-rust#:~:text=Because%20steel%20is%20a%20mixture,more%20chromium%20content%2C%20the%20better.)

I guess my real point was, the guy is willing to take the heat, bluntly asking questions I definitely share. 
At this point, who am I to judge some internet tough-love?