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From: bobr@zeus.TEK.COM (Robert Reed)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: C vrs ADA (on fact versus fiction)
Message-ID: <2293@zeus.TEK.COM>
Date: Wed, 26-Aug-87 15:07:31 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 26 15:07:31 1987
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Organization: CAE Systems Division, Tektronix Inc., Beaverton OR
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In article <713@elmgate.UUCP> ram@elmgate.UUCP (Randy Martens) writes:

    The right to hold and express an opinion is VITAL to our basic freedom,
    both as engineers/programmers/users, and as citizens.  Mr. Unekis's
    posting gave the world a chance to hear what he thought, which is the
    whole purpose of this net - the free and open exchange of opinions,
    ideas, answers, questions, facts, rumours, gibberish, and just plain
    information.  I DO NOT think that John's posting was "virulent", and I
    think that he did indeed provide a service to the community, by
    providing topic for discussion.  This makes people think, and thinking
    is a good thing.

The right to express one's opinions are not in question--it's the proporting
them as fact which is being called into question here.  There is a spectrum
of experience in the readership of this newsgroup.  Many of us are able to
discern fact from opinion, but not all of us.  Expressing misconceptions and
heresay as fact, without any disclaimers on its accuracy, is a disservice to
this community.

-- 
Robert Reed, Tektronix CAE Systems Division, bobr@zeus.TEK