[Courses] [C] Next C topic: Your Choice

[Suzi Anvin]

:)  trying to, darn it.  REMOVED, I hate to sak this, but is there a way 
you can get a private e-mail your husband doesn't use to talk on 
Linuxchix with?  Some webmail, a friend with a private server, ect, 
something you chould check from your current ISP but the DH doesn't have 
the password for?  No offense but that comment is really difficult to 
ignore and is IMnsHO grounds for divorce in some parts of the world... 
ANYONE of any gender who would make a comment like that to a list of 
learners is not the sort of person I want anywhere NEAR these lists. 
That BS is what I came to Linuxchix to get away from.
			-Suzi

REMOVED wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> My apologies for the very rude message sent by Steve.  Please ignore totally
> and continue
> 
> REMOVED
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jenn Vesperman" <jenn at anthill.echidna.id.au>
> To: "REMOVED" <REMOVED at bigpond.net.au>
> Cc: "Sophie" <sophie at cats.meow.at>; "Mary" <mary-linuxchix at puzzling.org>;
> <courses at linuxchix.org>
> Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2002 9:36 PM
> Subject: Re: [Courses] [C] Next C topic: Your Choice
> 
> 
> 
>>On Thu, 2002-07-18 at 21:15, REMOVED wrote:
>>
>>>In regards to C, (my wife has subscribed to this topic, but I just
>>
> happened
> 
>>>to see it), forget C, it is a barabaric language that only serves the
>>>function of being a universal assembler language.  Try to learn
>>
> something
> 
>>>that will be useful in the future instead.
>>
>>Steve,
>>
>>That was a very unhelpful post, and insulting to the people interested
>>in learning C - or in learning anything, for that matter. It is an
>>unprofessional attitude, as well, and I am surprised to see it here.
>>
>>The women in this course have _chosen_ to study C. They have made an
>>informed choice, and are (in general) well aware of Perl, Python, Ruby,
>>Java, Prolog, Modula 3, or whichever language would be your preference.
>>
>>The choice of programming language is a personal one, specific to the
>>individual and the task. (Unless the person is being paid to progam in a
>>specific language, of course.)
>>
>>Please in future do us the favour of NOT assuming that your personal
>>opinion of a language is universal. Hint: It isn't.
>>
>>If one is learning programming as a skill, it really doesn't matter
>>which language is learned. The grammar and syntax are trivial compared
>>to the ideas and the patterns of thinking. Learn one programming
>>language, and you can then learn any other language in the same overall
>>language family - and you can learn the other families fairly easily.
>>
>>
>>
>>If you, Steve, have _specific_ information about C, please feel free to
>>present it - but preferably more politely and without making yourself
>>look crude. If you have _opinion_, please present it as such and not in
>>a manner which is designed to be demeaning.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>Thank you.
>>
>>
>>Jenn V.
>>--
>>    "Do you ever wonder if there's a whole section of geek culture
>>        you miss out on by being a geek?" - Dancer.
>>
>>jenn at anthill.echidna.id.au     http://anthill.echidna.id.au/~jenn/
>>
>>
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