[Haskell-beginners] Compiling C into Haskell

Brent Yorgey byorgey at seas.upenn.edu
Mon Apr 12 18:13:32 EDT 2010


On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 08:29:51AM -0700, Hein Hundal wrote:
> 
> PS: I feel that I need to comment on your use of the phrase "dumb
> question".  Some beginners are young and they might be put off by
> the use of language that could be interpreted as a put down.
> Perhaps in the future, if you want to use that phrase in a beginners
> forum you could put the word dumb in quotes.  That way, the reader
> is less likely to interpret it as a put down.  :)

I agree with Hein; please don't use language like that when replying
to questions on this list, even if it is only in jest, and even if the
question IS dumb (which Hein's very clearly was not!).

-Brent


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