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[Walter Bright]

On 1/21/2013 6:16 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Jan 2013 20:17:26 -0500
> Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:
>
>> On 1/21/13 2:01 AM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>>> If I were a savvy businessman (read: no ethical fiber)
>>
>> Now that came out of left field.
>>
>
> I'm not sure what point you're trying to make by lifting that
> (arbitrary?) part of my sentence out of its full intended context:
>
> "[portion actually quoted here], I would manufacture a line of fire
> alarms advertised as being 100% silent[...etc...]and sell them
> exclusively to programmers."
>
> The point, of course, being that preferring to forgo the safety and
> static checks that a static language provides is comparable to
> preferring silent fire alarms (Ie because they're both good things
> to be explicitly warned about, and deliberately silencing them is
> shortsighted and ill-advised). You seem to have latched on to some
> insignificant detail there and misinterpreted it, though I'm not sure
> exactly what or how.
>
> You're not suggesting that trying to sell non-working fire alarms would
> be *ethical* are you? I wouldn't think so, but I'm not really sure what
> your point is.
>

I think he suggested the quote equated being a savvy businessman with having no 
ethical fiber.