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----- Original Message ----- From: "Ted Ashton" <ashted@southern.edu> To: "Greg Rollins" <caigregr@hotmail.com> Sent: Monday, August 07, 2000 2:03 PM Subject: Re: Apathetic and Lurkers > Thus it was written in the epistle of Greg Rollins, > > I am a lurker. I am attempting to observe the overhaul of my personal > > favorite programming language. When I was a kid I liked to hang out in a > > mechanics shop while the wrenches overhauled the various motors in the shop. > > This was in the 60's and 70's when an overhaul usually meant bolting on high > > performance additions to the family car. I'm here with the same childish > > curiosity. I'm watching the activity. Speaking as a 37 year old kid it's > > fascinating. I'm not apathetic about the rewrite, I just haven't seen > > anything yet that I really feel strongly about. I'm sure that is to come. > > At some point I would even like to help, but I haven't seen a place where I > > could make a positive contribution. Just my $.02 worth. > > Greg, > Glad you're here--don't give up hope :-). The "lurker=apathy" thing is as > old as the hills and gets debunked every time it comes up. By the by, if > something does come up you'd like to say your piece about, feel free-- > quite a > few of us in the fray haven't had much experience with the wrenches but care > enough about the car running well to tell the mechanics what the funny sound > was like :-). > Nice analogy, and thanks for the encouragement. GCR > Ted > -- > Ted Ashton (ashted@southern.edu), Info Sys, Southern Adventist University > ========================================================== > It is also a good rule not to put too much confidence in experimental results > until they have been confirmed by theory. > -- Eddington, Sir Arthur (1882-1944) > ========================================================== > Deep thoughts to be found at http://www.southern.edu/~ashted >Thread Previous