>He did qualify it as "in some people's estimations"... But you can do that with almost any statement that is false and turn it into a statement that is true.
"in some people's estimations" anthropogenic global warming is a hoax. "in some people's estimations" Obama is a Muslim. "in some people's estimations" Trump is a great president. OTOH, Nokia believed Symbian would be on top forever. martin ________________________________________ From: Development <[email protected]> on behalf of Thiago Macieira <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2017 9:38:16 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Development] As Qt contemplates its future.. Em quinta-feira, 13 de abril de 2017, às 07:44:09 PDT, Alejandro Exojo escreveu: > On Thursday 13 April 2017 21:02:59 Randall O'Reilly wrote: > > This also means that there is an endless potential for language wars, > > which > > I’m sure nobody wants to rehash on this list. > > Are you sure? Because in the next sentences seem like you exactly started to > fight for one side. You said that C++ "is now massively bloated and > unwieldy in some people’s estimation". And you send that to the mailing > list of developers of a C++ framework, without wanting to start a war? > Really? :-) He did qualify it as "in some people's estimations", as opposed to saying that as a general accepted truth, which we'd have disagreed on. We can't disagree that some people think that C++ is bloated and unwieldy, I know several people who think that. -- Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center _______________________________________________ Development mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development _______________________________________________ Development mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
