ASN.1

[Paul Makepeace]

On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 11:30 PM, Sagar R. Shah <sagsshah at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2008/7/17 James Laver <james.laver at gmail.com>:
>> On 17/7/08 06:29, "Sagar R. Shah" <sagsshah at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> If u're only processing a small set of data that'd probably be the way to go,
>>
>> Please try to use correct English. Perfection is not required, but "u're" is
>> unacceptable to most people.
>
> What's your problem James? Define "most"? Have you actually carried
> out a statistically significant survey? Anecdotally I would _guess_
> there are probably more english typing texters in this country than
> there are emailers and I would think a large proportion of the younger
> generation of those texters would find the abbreviation perfectly
> acceptable.

In any given culture there are norms and accepted standards. It so
happens that within this culture (London.pm mailing list) those kinds
of abbreviations, for better or worse, are frowned upon.

While your statistical guess may very well be right, it doesn't hold
(at all) for this audience.

> Let's now agree to disagree and let the list
> return to the topic of Perl.

Say, you ain't from around here, are ya, boy? :-)

(Which is to say, you might find this useful:
http://london.pm.org/about/faq.html)

P

>
> What some people (and I'm talking in general here rather than
> specifically about you, whom I don't know)  do not understand is that
> language is not a static thing, it continually evolves over the ages
> and the use of contractions such as these are a sign of the times of
> small keypads and busy lives. Evolution is a good thing not a bad
> thing. Popularity decides what survives not the hurtful bullying of
> statements like yours which mirrors (imho) the behaviour of early
> christans in this country towards the more native religions such as
> myrians ;-)
>
> What I did is reply to a question in an effort to share my technical
> experience. For you to pick out such a point and feel the need to make
> an off topic comment such as this to a public forum is something that
> I find not only petty and hurtful but also something that will
> discourage the many lurkers on the london.pm mailing list from coming
> out and joining threads every now and again.
>
> I've got no intention of starting a flame war on this topic. You've
> shared your "off topic" opinion in public and I've had a chance to
> respond in my defence. Let's now agree to disagree and let the list
> return to the topic of Perl.
>
> A good evening to you sir.
>