Re: Inherited explained

"Anonymous Remailer" <mixmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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With all due respect, your knowledge into delphi/pascal has created a
completely incoherent explanation. This is why I have not been able to
completely comprehend the inherited statement before.

I'm a lousy teacher. For that exact reason. I thought it was pretty
coherent myself, but then, I already knew all that stuff.


I will protest this line, however: 'This suggests to me that you have
a very ad-hoc and antagonistic understanding of how to build a system
of cooperating classes.'

So refute it.

The impression you make on me is that of a cargo cult programmer.
My guess is that you've read a lot of example code, have understood
it partly[0], and have not gone so far as to look up the word
inherited in the help file.

I consider that the wrong approach.


To go into slandering someone's character in your explanation is
patently wrong.

It's only slander if it isn't true.

So when I say that you appear to have taught yourself a programming
style of fighting the system, instead of making the system work for you
(and we've seen a *lot* of people like that here, so I may be biased),
all you have to do is convince me that I'm wrong.

Plus, I haven't said that you were stupid or hopeless, right? You
got two reactions so far, both from people who (if I do say so myself)
are very good at this and considered your article interesting and
worthy of a constructive reply. You'll have to take my word for it
that I _did_ mean it like that.

Groetjes,
Maarten Wiltink

[0] You may consider that faint praise, but it places you ahead of
some people.


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