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From: einari@rhi.hi.is (Einar Indridason)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: ALED goes to the wastebasket here in Iceland
Message-ID: <3268@krafla.rhi.hi.is>
Date: 18 Jun 91 10:35:48 GMT
References: <27098@as0c.sei.cmu.edu> <3254@krafla.rhi.hi.is> <27140@as0c.sei.cmu.edu>
Reply-To: einari@rhi.hi.is (Einar Indridason)
Organization: University of Iceland (RHI)
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In article <27140@as0c.sei.cmu.edu> df@sei.cmu.edu (Dan Farmer) writes:
>  The problem I see with your analogy is that if I was in that situation,
>and I had this faulty editor or pen or whatever, I would just use another
>one.  I wouldn't blame the typewriter or program, I would just switch.
>I think if *all* programs and pens and typewriters were like what you
>described, then you'd have a much better case, although, perhaps, your
>language might not have developed in the same way, if no one could write
>it :-)

I allready have stopped using that editor.  In fact, I never started to
use it, once I found out about the 8th bit!

My original posting was done in order to prevent more "pens, typewriters,
pencils" to miss those letters :-)

We need more "pens, typewriters, pencils..." to support those letters :-)

>  :-)  Well, perhaps.  If I was living in Iceland, perhaps I would have
>written to the author, or just dismissed the program as yet another
>ethnocentric program from those damn americans.  I don't think I would
>have flamed the program, although who can tell a man's breaking point?  :-)

I am very sorry to say this, but my breaking point has been reached :-/

>  I only hope in the future, people will consider their methods of
>communication a bit more.  The comment about "whining" I made may have
>been out of line (ok, it was :-)), but I still stand by the points I made.

No hard feelings?

>You called the program useless, and said "SHAME" to the author... I
>merely think it would have been more helpful to mail to the author and post
>your explanations (that you later posted), instead of getting into a
>flame war about how terrible american (and others, I guess) programs are.

Well, as I said above, my breaking point broke.  (Something just snapped)



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Surgeon Generals warning:  Masking the 8th bit can seriously damage your brain!!