not your fault, I am under some chemical stress here (I used! to smoke) and that had to do with a big part of my short temperedness.
also, I wouldn't know good code from bad apparently, all I know is what I wrote worked, and even translated across the gap between VB 6 and VB.net without a hitch, so I sort of felt kicked, even if that wasn't the intent of folks, my ill mode triggered a nasty gram when it shouldn't have.
so I offer my apologies, and if you smell sulfur around a message of mine know that it probably wasn't intentional.
inthane----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Hofstader" <cdh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2010 12:34 PM Subject: Sorry Hi,I would like to apologize to everyone on this list for starting the bitch session regarding the FruitBasket programs. Elf, Jamal and others have all put in a lot of effort into these examples and lots of people find them to be useful learning tools.
The "oddly organized" term resulted from something a Venezuelan professor said about the code if it was to be used in a programming languages course which is not the intent of the FruitBasket programs. Our student friend hoped she could kill two birds with one stone: have a good starting point for some of her class projects and help us build FB for Gnome. The professor's criticism came regarding the first issue as he didn't see the FB examples as being useful for demonstrating the student's ability to comprehend different programming languages; he is entirely agnostic to the purpose of FruitBasket and may not even know that his student wanted to help us build FB for Gnome.
As I had thought we had a volunteer working on FB for Gnome, I stopped looking for volunteers to work on it. When I learned that our student was redirected to writing console applications, I grew frustrated and included the professor's commentary on the code taint my post to this list. For this, I am very sorry as it has wasted your time and mine.
The FruitBasket project is terrific for its purpose and we had hoped that our student friend could use them for her classwork which would also get them done for the original purpose of FB. It didn't work out that way and I am very sorry for making it into an issue here.
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