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[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 3/29/11 4:37 PM, so wrote:
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> I find his posts among the most informative.

I don't meant to offend anyone here but I think it's worth making a 
point for your benefit and others'. If you are interested in programming 
language theory, probably there are better sources of information to 
use. Though I don't consider myself anywhere near an expert, my masters 
thesis was on programming language theory, which gives me some amount of 
perspective. "Cargo culture" would be a gross exaggeration, but much of 
the knowledge disseminated by bearophile is superficially absorbed 
literature that is served back semi-digested along with a hodge-podge of 
personal opinions of various degrees of correctness.

The only reason I felt compelled to make this point is the (now obvious) 
risk in taking such posts as a good source of information. It is is 
dangerous to take non-critically the occasional enormity that sneaks in. 
That's why I suggested in the past and am suggesting it again - please 
don't feign expertise as some may actually fall for it.

I have no doubt great personal improvement has been made in the past 
years, but the tone is still an octave above what it could be at its best.


Thanks,

Andrei