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Bob's had a long life with too much success. He really believes in himself. But, I have to say that the other guy was aggressive and bad even though I am more i
by tqwhite 2y ago
Bob's had a long life with too much success. He really believes in himself. But, I have to say that the other guy was aggressive and bad even though I am more inclined to agree with him. He willfully misrepresented Bob's ideas. I thought he presented more misguided certainty than Bob. No Bueno.
- usefulcat 2y agoThe "other guy" is John Ousterhout, author of the Tcl scripting language. Although I can see why you might consider him more "aggressive", I personally think it matters much more that he was, in general, far more descriptive of his reasoning. Merely having an opinion is the easy part; being able to clearly articulate the reason(s) why one has a particular opinion is far more important, especially in this kind of conversation, and I in that regard I repeatedly found UB lacking.
- dsego 2y agoI didn't read it as aggressive, more like engaged in the discussion, he really wanted to get to the bottom of things and get his views and opinions challenged, but UB was a bit defensive and closed. Even though UB has strong opinions he wasn't as engaged in building a case for them, he just tried not to budge or maybe he conceded smaller points and then retreated to a less dogmatic stance.