From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 7 22:14:52 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0345837B401 for ; Fri, 7 Feb 2003 22:14:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailhost.det2.ameritech.net (mailhost1-sfldmi.sfldmi.ameritech.net [206.141.193.105]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4488943F75 for ; Fri, 7 Feb 2003 22:14:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dbailey27@ameritech.net) Received: from ameritech.net ([67.38.16.140]) by mailhost.det2.ameritech.net (InterMail vM.4.01.02.17 201-229-119) with ESMTP id <20030208061434.WIBY26543.mailhost.det2.ameritech.net@ameritech.net>; Sat, 8 Feb 2003 01:14:34 -0500 Message-ID: <3E44A036.1010609@ameritech.net> Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2003 01:14:14 -0500 From: northern snowfall User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020518 Netscape6/6.2.3 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Meyer Cc: questions@freebsd.org, matrix@altima.net Subject: Re: languages References: <200302072309.AA423166622@altima.net> <15940.38588.692767.171995@guru.mired.org> <3E44980B.20607@ameritech.net> <15940.39707.55965.640089@guru.mired.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > >You're being redundant. > Oh. Thanks for clearing that up. >Seriously, this is just idle speculation until the OP bothers to tell >us what he intends to use the knowledge for. > Absolutely, which is why I am entitled to my opinion =) My opinion reflects my interests in computer science and doesn't negate another individual's worth when learning their facet of the science itself. There is no reason to be defensive. I could argue that your languages are redundant in their scope as well. Its all relative to what we desire to learn. I desire to learn Operating System design. Architecture specific code. Portability, etc. Therefore, C asm and Java are hardly redundant. If someone posts a languages question to a mailing list about an Operating System (not a www mailing list or a XML mailing list or an OOB mailing list...) I have to _assume_ they are talking relative to the topic of the mailing list. Even if they aren't, I still have a right to state thoughts. Don't you think? =) Don "dead cat in a top hat..." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message