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It's not dishonest to point out that the syntax would have to be made more complex and that there are downsides to that. It takes 30 seconds to find a comment s
by pcwalton 5y ago
It's not dishonest to point out that the syntax would have to be made more complex and that there are downsides to that. It takes 30 seconds to find a comment somewhere here on HN decrying the complexity of modern languages. None of those comments are dishonest, even if I don't agree with them.
- ncmncm 5y agoThat would be fine, except that was not at all its substance. The claim was that it was not possible, something I recognized at the time as farcical and a disgrace. I have no recollection who penned it, but can only hope the author has since left the project, or been ejected.
- pcwalton 5y agoYou don't remove people from a project for being wrong about whether a proposed feature works in the syntax. That's silly.
- expnkx 5y ago
- dang 5y agoWe've banned this account for egregiously breaking the site guidelines. You can't use HN to attack people. If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. Besides not attacking people, that would include not posting flamewar comments and not using HN for an agenda the way you have been.
- ncmncm 5y agoYou do remove people from a project for transparently lying to users about whether a requested feature is possible, and making up an elaborate fiction as to why it is not possible. Or, I would. How Rust does things has probably evolved; anyway, I hope it has. But it is, for me, Somebody Else's Problem. Other people are more directly exposed.