Re: Octave and cargo cult programmingHello

[Przemek Klosowski]

On 09/20/2012 05:42 AM, Sergei Steshenko wrote:

> Warnings without line numbers either demonstrate yet another
> strategic deficiency in Octave infrastructure (in Perl, for example,
> warnings come with line numbers) or, if the infrastructure is in
> place, complete cluelessness of the coder(s) who implemented the
> (broadcasting) code.

Sergei,

when I was raising a couple of rowdy teenage children, I found it 
helpful to attend community classes on child psychology and such. An 
important lessons they teach is that it is a counter-productive mistake 
to attribute personal character traits to individual actions. If one 
doesn't like the outcome, one should put a good argument as to why it's 
wrong and what should have been done instead, while expressing love and 
commitment to the person you're stuck with, whether a teenager or Octave 
developer :)