Can we all please stop overreacting?

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 04/30/2010 02:01 PM, traveling mirror salesman wrote:
> Andrei Alexandrescu Wrote:
>
>> On 04/30/2010 10:46 AM, retard wrote:
>>> Fri, 30 Apr 2010 10:22:59 -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Now, could we all please stop with the personal attacks and
>>>>> demonisation of the "other side"?  This isn't a war, for Pete's sake.
>>>>
>>>> You're making the situation look symmetrical. It isn't.
>>>
>>> No, you're right. There's only one person who's insolently dismissing the
>>> quality and efforts of other's work and blatantly advertising his own
>>> GODDAMN precious work in the same post.
>>
>> Who is that? (Honest question.)
>
> Allow me to introduce the very modest myself. I'm N=NP?, a travelling mirror salesman, dear effendi.
>
> This is the luckiest day in my life since I may have the honor to offer You my best goods. The mirrors I sell are of the finest quality, definitely not iterating snake oil. They help your std.algorithm become non-petty rocket science and even have practical applications like curing cancer. No need to worry about your ego, it will make it HUGE as we can all see from the picture. You also don't need to spread FUD anymore to send competitors away. They surely realize now that the lawn isn't large enough for the both of you.

Funny :o). (Let me clarify that std.algorithm is under the Boost License 
lest that aspect gets forgotten in the discussion.)

Now, that is a honest question, though clearly Walter and I are prime 
suspects of the sniping. First, I am careful with giving credit where 
credit is due, so if I failed to do so, I'd definitely want to correct 
course. Second, I recall a similar accusation (I'm not sure whether it 
was coming from 'retard' or someone else) about an arrogant language 
designer on this newsgroup who has barely read the Wikipedia article 
about algebraic data types. Again it is reasonable to infer that Walter 
or I (though I don't consider myself a language designer) were the 
primary targets of that one too, but I failed to recognize my own 
actions - so in brief I want to make sure what the state of affairs is.


Andrei