Re: Open Letter to Peter Seibel

Ken Tilton <kentilton@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

Peter Seibel wrote:
Ken Tilton <kentilton@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

bradb wrote:

At least if nothing else good comes of all this, the cells-basic
tutorial is now up to date :) <ducks>

<heh-heh> No need to duck, I was laughing about that already. The
only downside is if I decide screw you guys, I'm going home.

The larger point is that it really is a two-way street. You raised
an issue with the doc and it got fixed. Coincidence? I don't think
so. :)

Doc whiners who never ask the maintainers anything remind me of this
story:
Hey, I didn't whine about the doc; I don't care one way or the
other.
I just explaind why it was thta I never bothered to look deeply into
Cells, in response to your claim that it was because I was unable to
get it running.

Stop bobbing and weaving. :) Your response was as you say, explaining
that you could not find anything explaining what it was and why you
should bother. That explanation is what I am addressing. And I cannot
believe you did not explain how what I posted did not address both
what Cells is and why you should bother.

It looks like it might. But like I said, I don't really care any more.
You've been selling Cells up and down for years now; when you first
started I was interested and excited enough to go looking for this
kind of material; unfortunately it didn't exist then. Now I'm in a
more wait and see (i.e. lazy) mode. Some day I may have a problem that
I'll say, hmmm, this seems like a perfect thing for Cells, maybe I
should go check it out again. Or maybe I'll see that people other than
you are making good use of it and that'll excite my interest again.
But for now it's been pushed well down stack of things to check out.

-Peter

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