(j3.2006) (SC22WG5.4028) [ukfortran] LOCK/UNLOCK question

[Bill Long]

Malcolm Cohen wrote:
> 
> 
> N.M. Maclaren wrote:
> 
>> In my experience, the unstructured nature of aliasing control is a more
>> important factor, but I agree that getting unstructured parallelism 
>> controls
>> right is error-prone in the hands of experts and completely hopeless 
>> in the
>> hands of non-experts.
> 
> Bill Long wrote:
>> I dislike this sort of imperious condescension. While it might be the 
>> case that some hapless beginners will get things wrong,
> 
> Accusations of "imperious condescension" and implications that fellow 
> committee members are "hapless beginners" (which sounds condescending in 
> itself) are out of place on an international mailing list.  Your 
> technical arguments would be stronger if you left this stuff out.

I certainly never even thought of Nick in the class of "hapless 
beginners", nor in the class of "really good programmers".  I don't have 
enough experience to put him in any level.  I'm stunned that anyone 
would have come to this conclusion.

What I do object to is Nick's frequent declarations that other 
programmers are hopeless and incompetent.  This is what I meant by 
"imperious condescension", which I thought would be obvious to everyone. 
I think it is generally wrong based on my experience, and I think that 
is what is out of place on an international mailing list.

Cheers,
Bill


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