From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id QAA28587; Wed, 7 Nov 2001 16:37:31 +0100 (MET) Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA28641 for ; Wed, 7 Nov 2001 16:37:30 +0100 (MET) Received: from staff.cs.usyd.edu.au (staff.cs.usyd.edu.au [129.78.8.1]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.10.0) with SMTP id fA7FbSf11586 for ; Wed, 7 Nov 2001 16:37:29 +0100 (MET) Received: from hons.cs.usyd.edu.au. by staff.cs.usyd.edu.au.; Thu, 08 Nov 2001 02:37:23 +1100 Received: from localhost (mrak@localhost) by hons.cs.usyd.edu.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id CAA07336 for ; Thu, 8 Nov 2001 02:37:23 +1100 X-Authentication-Warning: hons.cs.usyd.edu.au: mrak owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 02:37:23 +1100 (EST) From: Mark Wotton cc: Caml Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Jihad In-Reply-To: <003801c1679c$641966f0$d0c201cf@XENO> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Wed, 7 Nov 2001, Eric Newhuis wrote: > A quick note on my potentially offensive style... > > I am sincere. The term fits my personal experience with > ObjectiveCaml. It is jihad, i.e. "struggle". I am sorry if others > may take issue with my use of metephor. > > My intentions were never to offend. And I will not retract. On a purely practical level, you may be well advised not to use religious terms. The perception of functional programmers is already that we're all crazed zealots: using religious terminology doesn't help that at all. mrak ------------------- Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr