10 Jan
2012
10 Jan
'12
3:22 a.m.
On Jan 9, 2012 8:33 PM, "Fred Cisin" <cisin at xenosoft.com> wrote:
Fair point. I am using Gmail, which collapses & hides quoted text I have
read before. Also, often, I am writing on my phone, which makes block
deletions very hard work. But I must remember that others may not be.
> >>>>>>>>>> I consider BASIC to be an excellent
beginner's introduction
to
>>>>>>>>>> "what
>>>>>>>>>> is a program?", etc., so long as they are
exposed to other
>>>>>>>>>> languages
>>>>>>>>>> immediately after grasping the basic principles.
You might agree with the above;
you might disagree with the above.
(You already know where I stand)
BUT, it is surely NOT so brilliant as to warrant
being quoted by the next TEN respondents.
It has had so many chevrons (a name for the '>'
"greater than" character) prepended that relatively
short lines have wrapped.
(Since people might not trim even THIS, I'm using
shorter lines)
It's nice to have a little bit of context V
"WHO are youagreeing/disagreeing with?".
But, do we really NEED the entire transcript
of the thread repeated every time?
Howzbout: delete what's unnecessary of
what the person you are replying to
quoted of what the person they were replying to
quoted of what the person they were replying to
quoted of what the person they were replying to
quoted of what the person they were replying to
quoted of what the person they were replying to
quoted of what the person they were replying to
quoted of what the person they were replying to.
On [impersonal] your most recent post,
how many lines of unnecessary crap did
[impersonal] YOU delete?
If you want to reply or flame THIS, select a line or two
that best summarizes what you feel needs to be answered.
There are immense chevrons made of chevrons,
as people add their input, but never delete
ANY of the previous crap.
But, it is heartening that due to the prevalence of bottom and
interlinear posting here, at least some of those chevrons are
asymmetrical. (The MOST annoyingly over-quoted stuff is near
the beginning)
There has been an immense amount of VERY useful and important
information buried in the 33K (out of 34K) of extraneous crap