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From: pjh@mccc.edu (Pete Holsberg)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: ALED goes to the wastebasket here in Iceland
Message-ID: <1991Jun18.171401.11955@mccc.edu>
Date: 18 Jun 91 17:14:01 GMT
References: <27098@as0c.sei.cmu.edu> <3253@krafla.rhi.hi.is>
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In article <3253@krafla.rhi.hi.is> frisk@rhi.hi.is (Fridrik Skulason) writes:
=In article <27098@as0c.sei.cmu.edu> df@sei.cmu.edu (Dan Farmer) writes:
=>  This is rediculous -- just because something doesn't suit *your*
=>needs doesn't mean that it's "a waste of disk space".  What an
=>egocentric view -- perhaps the author doesn't care if his program
=>is used by whiners in the frozen north. 
=
=No, he obviously did not expect it to be used anywhere but in the US -
=
=What would you say if I wrote (and posted) an editor which did not allow
=you to use C,Q,W or Z - after all, we don't use those letters, so nobody
=else could possibly have any use for them, right ?

"Fridrik Skulason's recently posted editor does not use C, Q, W or Z. 
Although it appears to be a well-written pice of software, it is not
useful for people who need those letters.  He might have mentioned that
in the note he posted or in the description of the program."

=Well, my reason for flaming is simple - perhaps I might reach the ears of
=some American programmers (well, nobody else writes 7-bit PC programs) who
=are not yet aware that this is an 8-bit world :-)

You stupid jerk!  Do you actually think that any American programmers
will pay any attention to the needs of people from tiny countries? 
(Tongue removed from cheek!)

How did you feel reading that?  Did it make you want to change your ways
or just hit back at me?  Maybe flaming *isn't* the way to reach someone.

Pete

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