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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