From: Dave Korn <dave.korn.cygwin@googlemail.com>
To: Jeff Law <law@redhat.com>
Cc: dclarke@blastwave.org, Richard Guenther <rguenther@suse.de>,
Dave Korn <dave.korn.cygwin@googlemail.com>,
"Joseph S. Myers" <joseph@codesourcery.com>,
Michael Matz <matz@suse.de>,
Richard Kenner <kenner@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu>,
gcc@gcc.gnu.org, hongjiu.lu@intel.com
Subject: Re: WTF?
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:18:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B0D94A9.3050502@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B0D8D18.9040805@redhat.com>
Jeff Law wrote:
> On 11/25/09 12:41, Dennis Clarke wrote:
>>
>> Gentlemen, a point of order please.
>>
>> Let us not degrade into a base argument
> I don't see anything in this discussion that's out of the ordinary for
> this group of engineers. We've had (and will certainly have) far more
> heated discussions on more important issues.
I'd just like to add that I didn't take any offense at the quoted text(*)
from Richard G's response to me, nor see it as even intemperate or harsh; it's
nothing more than a bit of minor hyperbole to emphasise the point, a
bog-standard rhetorical technique in entirely everyday use.
cheers,
DaveK
--
(*) - which you left unattributed and may appear in your out-of-context quote
to be something that I wrote.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-25 20:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-25 19:41 WTF? Dennis Clarke
2009-11-25 20:01 ` WTF? Jeff Law
2009-11-25 20:18 ` Dave Korn [this message]
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2009-11-25 16:39 WTF? Richard Guenther
2009-11-25 16:40 ` WTF? Richard Guenther
2009-11-25 16:47 ` WTF? Richard Kenner
2009-11-25 16:50 ` WTF? Richard Guenther
2009-11-26 12:14 ` WTF? Vincent Lefevre
2009-11-25 16:58 ` WTF? Jeff Law
2009-11-25 17:09 ` WTF? Michael Matz
2009-11-25 17:16 ` WTF? Richard Kenner
2009-11-25 18:18 ` WTF? Michael Matz
2009-11-25 19:00 ` WTF? Richard Kenner
2009-11-25 19:39 ` WTF? Richard Guenther
2009-11-25 19:43 ` WTF? Richard Guenther
2009-11-25 19:55 ` WTF? Basile STARYNKEVITCH
2009-11-25 19:59 ` WTF? Jeff Law
2009-11-25 23:05 ` WTF? Tom Tromey
2009-11-25 23:08 ` WTF? Richard Guenther
2009-11-25 23:30 ` WTF? Basile STARYNKEVITCH
2009-11-26 0:54 ` WTF? Joern Rennecke
2009-11-27 10:24 ` WTF? Richard Earnshaw
2009-11-25 23:27 ` WTF? Joseph S. Myers
2009-11-25 21:47 ` WTF? Paolo Bonzini
2009-11-27 10:36 ` WTF? Peter Zijlstra
2009-11-26 13:08 ` WTF? Michael Matz
2009-11-26 18:32 ` WTF? Dave Korn
2009-11-25 19:31 ` WTF? Richard Guenther
2009-11-25 19:44 ` WTF? Daniel Jacobowitz
2009-11-25 23:21 ` WTF? Alexandre Oliva
2009-11-26 8:56 ` WTF? Paolo Bonzini
2009-11-26 10:07 ` WTF? Richard Guenther
2009-11-26 10:43 ` WTF? Philip Martin
2009-11-25 20:17 ` WTF? Kaveh R. GHAZI
2009-11-25 20:22 ` WTF? Dave Korn
2009-11-25 20:28 ` WTF? Richard Guenther
2009-11-25 20:33 ` WTF? Kaveh R. Ghazi
2009-11-25 20:31 ` WTF? Kaveh R. Ghazi
2009-11-25 20:35 ` WTF? Richard Kenner
2009-11-25 20:51 ` WTF? Kaveh R. Ghazi
2010-01-02 17:11 ` WTF? Gerald Pfeifer
2009-11-25 23:12 ` WTF? Ben Elliston
2009-11-26 12:46 ` WTF? Vincent Lefevre
2009-11-25 17:19 ` WTF? Jeff Law
2009-11-25 17:25 ` WTF? Joseph S. Myers
2009-11-25 17:32 ` WTF? Dave Korn
2009-11-25 19:34 ` WTF? Richard Guenther
2009-11-25 17:28 ` WTF? Richard Kenner
2009-11-25 17:03 ` WTF? Michael Matz
2009-11-25 17:29 ` WTF? Dave Korn
2009-11-25 21:55 ` WTF? Paolo Bonzini
2009-11-27 10:35 ` WTF? Richard Earnshaw
2009-11-25 23:52 ` WTF? Lu, Hongjiu
2009-11-26 0:09 ` WTF? H.J. Lu
2009-11-26 15:11 ` WTF? Jeff Law
2009-11-26 23:17 ` WTF? Lu, Hongjiu
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