[sac-forum] Re: Paul's Programming

 
Kimball,
Your opinion is welcome because the participants of a list determine how it
is used. I do not view this as an issue of standards, as you imply, and my
intention is not to turn this into a big controversy directed at me. Indeed,
all I initially did was respond with a question to the message Paul (the
listowner or moderator or whatever SAC may call him because I am sure he is
not technically the 'list owner') initially posted. If the list
owner-moderator (or whatever he is called in SAC because I am sure he is not
technically the 'list owner') felt the subject appropriate in SAC Forum,
thenI felt it appropriate to also respond. I recall Paul saying when he
firstannounced the creation of SAC Forum a number of years ago that anything
related to astronomy could be discussed, which is a lot more liberal than
Az-Observing. Granted, programming is far afield from astronomy, but Paul,
asthe list owner-moderator (or whatever he is called in SAC because I am
surehe is not technically the 'list owner'), brought the subject up,
apparently felt it was astronomy related, and made an astronomy connection
inhis first post. This is where I am coming from, not from any 'standard'. 

For these reasons I do not understand AJ's position. With this I will post
nomore on the subject. After all, all I initially did was respond with a
simple question to a message posted by an Official (in whatever capacity
thatmay be if not an actual officer) of the club! I leave it to the
authorities in the club to explain what is going on. 
Stan

Kimball Corson wrote:
Stan, I suggest that your standard of relevancy is so broad as to be no
standard at all and therefore would permit too much that really is not
relevant or of interest to astronomers. Kimball Corson AJ, You are really a
nice guy, but in this I respectfully have to say I think you are a little
tooextreme in your response below . . . . Besides, I personally find these
discussions interesting and relevant because some day I may be writing a
program to control a telescope, or a part of a telescope or instrument, and
learning from other astronomers the existence and capabilities of
programminglanguages is helpful. Respectfully, my opinion for the good of
theclub. Stan

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