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From: rcd@ico.isc.com (Dick Dunn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript,alt.flame
Subject: Re: PostScript Level II, contextual forms
Summary: disgusting rudeness
Message-ID: <1990Aug31.000045.21598@ico.isc.com>
Date: 31 Aug 90 00:00:45 GMT
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Organization: Interactive Systems Corporation, Boulder, CO
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ccc_ldo@waikato.ac.nz (Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato University) writes:

> I received the following e-mail message from Dick Dunn. I publish it
> without further comment.

[my mail message, posted without my permission, in violation of any
semblance of {n}etiquette]

I am sorry that D'Oliviero has forced this back into a public forum.  I had
tried to take it to email because the discussion had digressed, with his
last posting, from what could have been a useful consideration of language-
processing issues into an unfounded, personal attack by D'Oliviero on my
abilities, background, and understanding of the issues.  It has been clear
that D'Oliviero not only fails to understand the purposes and goals of
PostScript (which, by itself, would be no big fault), but refuses to admit
the possibility that he's approaching the problem in the wrong way.  He
posits an approach which is wildly at variance with all existing practice
and requires radical changes to PostScript, then flames people who try to
guide him back to a useful answer.

I stand by the statements I made in the email.  I considerably understated
my relevant background--e.g., I omitted five years or so working for a
company that made word-processing systems in an international market and a
separate project "internationalizing" another text formatter for both
European and Oriental languages--but that's no matter.  We can't help
D'Oliviero.  He doesn't want to listen and he doesn't want to learn.

Sorry for the waste of bandwidth.  I tried to take it offline, but
appparently D'Oliviero is more interested in a dispute than in solving a
problem, and seems to have some considerable ego invested in being
egregiously wrong.
-- 
Dick Dunn     rcd@ico.isc.com -or- ico!rcd       Boulder, CO   (303)449-2870
   ...I'm not cynical - just experienced.