Possibly better loop construct, also labels+goto important and on the fly compiler idea.

[Chris Angelico]

On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 3:03 PM,  <rurpy at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Regarding esr's "smart-questions", although I acknowledge
> it has useful advice, I have always found it elitist and
> abrasive.  I wish someone would rewrite it without the
> "we are gods" attitude.

I find it actually pretty appropriate. The attitude comes from a
hierarchy in which we are not at the top - but neither is esr. On the
roleplaying game Threshold, there's a help file about that, which
succinctly sums up what I'm trying to say, but it doesn't seem to be
on the web, so unless you want to telnet to thresholdrpg.com, create
an account, and type "help hierarchy" at the prompt, you can't see the
text of it. Oh well. :| Anyway, point is: We're in a hierarchy (or
actually several independent and unrelated ones), and being at the top
means (in the open source world) being everyone's servant; and the
people at the top simply don't have time to be _everyone's_ servant
personally, so they need some sous-servants to help them to help
people. (Obvious example of that in the Python community is Guido at
the top, other core committers and PEP writers and so on helping him,
and then the large crew of core question-answerers, bug triagers,
patch writers, etc, etc, etc.) You offer courtesy to those who are
above you; they're giving of their time freely, making themselves your
servants, and all they ask is that you make it easy for them to do so.
That's a pretty good deal for all of us at the bottom of the hierarchy
:)

ChrisA