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Invisible wrote:
> When somebody like that tells you you're an idiot, you sit up and take notice.
I don't think you're an idiot. I get a bit frustrated with people when they
swallow marketing FUD that's trivially disprovable, or when they
overgeneralize and then insist that the overgeneralization applies in every
situation. I think those are the two things online that bug me, and only
coming from people I view as intelligent and educable. (I know that last bit
sounds rather hubric, but I don't feel like coming up with a better word
right now. :-)
You're not an idiot, and I never thought you were.
> personally must be doing something very wrong to attract this kind of
> negative attention.
My guess is you're asking hard questions that make the Haskell experts feel
like they've been wasting their time. Hard questions like "why does C add
this up in 2 seconds and Haskell takes 7 minutes?"
I've found a good technique is to admit upfront it's probably something
you're doing wrong yourself, and ask for help fixing it, like "this program
is much slower than an interative approach - what am I doing wrong that
makes it so slow?"
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
"Ouch ouch ouch!"
"What's wrong? Noodles too hot?"
"No, I have Chopstick Tunnel Syndrome."
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