Re: UNIX Compatibility

Michael Witten
2011-05-25T15:22:23Z

On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 15:17, Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-05-25 at 14:20 +0000, Michael Witten wrote:
>> On Wed, 25 May 2011 06:18:28 +0200, Michael Galbraith wrote:
>> > On Tue, 2011-05-24 at 18:31 +0000, Michael Witten wrote:
>> >> On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 18:16, Ted Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> > No one ever bothers to deal with issues because they are tiny,
>> >> > nit-pitcky things that no one other than standards mavens would care
>> >> > about.  You have to be someone who is extremely anal to really care
>> >> > about this kind of stuff.  It's really stupid stuff... paper pushers...
>> >> >
>> >> > If you want to waste time out of your life that you'll never get back...
>> >> > ...
>> >> > ... standards committee, as full of ivory-tower eggheads as it is,
>> >> > does have some folks who recognize that there is such a thing as
>> >> > the Real World)...
>> >>
>> >> The world would be a better place if you weren't so needlessly
>> >> confrontational when sharing your knoweldge, Ted.
>> >
>> > Ivory-tower eggheads is common vernacular, a colorful and communicative
>> > description of a mindset.  Ted's usage added useful information to the
>> > conversation, unlike the pompous interjection above.
>>
>> At first I thought you were labeling as `pompous' my suggestion that the
>> world would be improved by the introduction of a little more civility in
>> our discourse, and so I was confused.
>
> No you weren't.  I found your remark to be pompous sideline sniping.

I like your ironical humor.