Brane2 wrote:Trying to be nice to people is pointless.
Ah, well, being nice to people is a requirement for being a member of this forum. If you don't play nice, the forum moderators will find you and slap your legs!
If you still won't play nice, your time here is limited.
Now, that doesn't mean that you cannot have a constructive discussion and argue your point of view robustly. However, in order to put ones point over convincingly, one must provide facts. Not opinions, facts.
You don't like any form of BASIC, that's fine. Other people do, that's equally fine.
You can't think of any useful SuperBASIC applications, I gave you a list, they were useful. Maybe not to you, judging by your response as "meeeh", but you are not the only QL fan on this forum, and lots of people have and do find them useful.
This latter fact negates your
opinion than there were no useful SuperBASIC applications. You have provided zero facts to back up your opinion, and it only needs one person to say that they found
any one single SuperBASIC application useful, to prove you wrong.
That has been done. Now, IF you are still of the opinion that no such useful application exists and never has. That's fine. This is now called wilful ignorance. Your position on the matter has been proven wrong, but you insist on sticking to it regardless. This is bordering on religion now, and we all know how that usually turns out!
Please continue with your hardware thread, it's obviously useful and informative and looks to be a good discussion. It is of zero interest to me personally, but I still read it. I might learn something. Maybe not, I might be too old! What I'm not going to do is jump in and tell everyone my opinion that hardware on the QL is totally shit -- because I would be proven wrong almost instantly.
The scientific method is pretty good, it works, it helps advance knowledge. The wishy washy woo shit that prevails on so called social media is a backward step, and should be consigned to the deepest bowels of whatever Hell's exist. Along with conspiracy theories, flat earthers and moon landing deniers, anti maskers and anti vaxers.
So, let's all be nice.
Cheers,
Norm. (Forum moderator.)