The Importance of Terminology's Quality

[Peter Duniho]

On Fri, 30 May 2008 22:40:03 -0700, szr <szrRE at szromanMO.comVE> wrote:

> Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> Stephan Bour wrote:
>>> Lew wrote:
>>> } John Thingstad wrote:
>>> } > Perl is solidly based in the UNIX world on awk, sed, bash and C.
>>> } > I don't like the style, but many do.
>>> }
>>> } Please exclude the Java newsgroups from this discussion.
>>>
>>> Did it ever occur to you that you don't speak for entire news groups?
>>
>> Did it occur to you that there are nothing about Java in the above ?
>
> Looking at the original post, it doesn't appear to be about any specific
> language.

Indeed.  That suggests it's probably off-topic in most, if not all, of the  
newsgroups to which it was posted, inasmuch as they exist for topics  
specific to a given programming language.

Regardless, unless you are actually reading this thread from the c.l.j.p  
newsgroup, I'm not sure I see the point in questioning someone who _is_  
about whether the thread belongs there or not.  Someone who is actually  
following the thread from c.l.j.p can speak up if they feel that Lew is  
overstepping his bounds.  Anyone else has even less justification for  
"speaking for the entire newsgroup" than Lew does, and yet that's what  
you're doing when you question his request.

And if it's a vote you want, mark me down as the third person reading  
c.l.j.p that doesn't feel this thread belongs.  I don't know whether Lew  
speaks for the entire newsgroup, but based on comments so far, it's pretty  
clear that there unanimous agreement among those who have expressed an  
opinion.

If you all in the other newsgroups are happy having the thread there,  
that's great.  Please feel free to continue with your discussion.  But  
please, drop comp.lang.java.programmer from the cross-posting.

Pete