[E-Lang] A more critical question (was: an example impatience policy )

[Mark S. Miller]

At 09:21 AM Wednesday 3/21/01, Marc Stiegler wrote:
>I urge markm to more frequently use his authority to say, "yes, that
>is a better idea, we will work with it some other time", to less frequently
>personally engage these questions (and he hasn't engaged this SturdyRef
>question, for which I commend him), and for everyone to be forgiving (even
>complimentary!) of markm when he uses this authority.

While I would like to take credit for having the wisdom to avoid engaging 
this thread for these reasons, the truth is that I've just been too busy 
coding on the next release, so I figured I'd get to these issues later.  
Hmm, well, I suppose that's sorta the point, so maybe I will take credit.  ;)

In any case, that's no reason for the rest of you to postpone arguing these 
matters out.  To the degree you can settle these in my absence, I'll have 
that much more to go on when it is time for me to pay attention to these 
matters.  Don't let the discussion of impatience time out on my 
unresponsiveness.  I'm Sturdy but slow, and we've already paid the costs for 
a perpetually persistent message buffer -- the email archive.  (Thereby 
demonstrating that I do read the messages, even when I don't take the time 
to participate.)


        Cheers,
        --MarkM