Here's looking at you, kid

Chris via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Mon Nov 23 14:03:11 PST 2015


On Monday, 23 November 2015 at 20:21:37 UTC, Chris Wright wrote:
>>>> I'm not always politically correct
>>>
>>> Most of the time, "politically correct" means being 
>>> respectful to others, except the speaker intends to indicate 
>>> that that is a bad thing.
>> 
>> Political correctness tries to censor the free expression of 
>> thoughts and has nothing to do with being respectful or not. 
>> Being politically correct means to censor one's own thoughts 
>> out of fear of being told off.
>
> This is your line of objection when I asked you to be 
> respectful toward people who might want to learn D.
>
> Normal people are polite and respectful out of common human 
> decency. Does this sometimes mean not uttering everything that 
> passes through your head? Of course. But the motivation comes 
> from wanting to work well with others and even from caring 
> about other people. Not fear of being told off.
>
> Does this not work for you?

Do not watch this, if you identify with any of the following 
languages:

C, C++, Perl, Java, Scala, JavaScript, Go, Rust, bash, Python (2 
and 3), Ruby, PHP, Mathematica, C#, Prolog, Lisp

http://bjorn.tipling.com/if-programming-languages-were-weapons

Else, you can just have a laugh.


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