Flame bait: D vs. Rust vs. Go Benchmarking

[Nick Sabalausky]

On Mon, 29 Jul 2013 19:47:30 +0200
"Jonathan A Dunlap" <jdunlap at outlook.com> wrote:

> Simply I believe the people 
> who have the most respect or fame in the industry need to be the 
> most careful about their expression.

I agree with that, but only because being well-known leads to a much
higher change of being quoted out-of-context in a very widespread, or
even deliberately sensationalized manner. Therefore, they
(unfortunately) have to be careful what they say publicly simply for
their own sake.

> Just like any parent to 
> child relationship, be aware that others may emulate your 
> behavior and cross boundaries where you had carefully walked the 
> line.

That I don't agree with at all. If person X, famous or not, is seen
smoking and person Y thinks "Wow, that person's great I wanna do
every dumb fuck thing they do (because I'm apparently a stupid fucking
shit who can't think for myself, and can't be expected to)" and then
gets hooked on nicotine gets lung cancer, etc, then it's purely person
Y's *own* dumbshit fault.

Blaming person X for that, famous or not, would be a ridiculous shifting
of responsibilities on par with blaming some music band, or blaming JD
Salinger, etc. A person, famous or not, cannot rationally be held
responsible for what the masses of idiots they've never even met will
end up doing out of their own colossal stupidity.