From:	makulik AT tf16 DOT mch DOT sni DOT de (Makulik.Guenther T 27528 R 91-811 WS tx24 )
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Cant we all just get along??
Date:	5 Aug 1997 10:24:43 GMT
Organization:	Siemens Nixdorf Inc.
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To:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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Hi,

Auspex (Auspex AT usa DOT net) wrote:
: Well, i'm pretty new to this group, but i've noticed that every time
Well I'm too ...

: someone asks a stupid question, everyone gets on their backs!! Please
Stupid questions will have stupid answers!

: people, just cuz someone didnt read one of the readmes or docs that come
: with djgpp doesn't mean you have to yell at them! People need to learn
I did the same mistake in the beginning, and asked why DJGPP doesn't find
the correct references for methods and classes of iostream.h. Nobody yelled
at me, they told me to read the FAQ (this is the most common answer I've
seen for such questions here). OK I had a moment of dissapointment that no
one served the 'golden' answer for my concrete question and I read the FAQ.
Short time later I downloaded the correct stuff I need. BTW I read some more 
of the useful informations in the FAQ while looking for the section which 
answered my questions. So I think I got the right answer.

: from their mistakes, not be scolded... and just because you've seen tons
: of newbies asking the same dumb question, it doesnt mean you need to get
: mad at the next one that comes in! Some of you people need to lighten
: up! If someone is trying to learn how to program, sometimes they need
: help with little things. Why can't we all just get along?
I would answer even beginners questions with the same seriosity as sophisticated
programming problem questions. The point is that if some programming beginner
asks a question, most of the times the problem description is very unprecise.
And there starts the misunderstatement: If someone asks for further details on
the problem to give the right answer, or he answers that the problem is already
mentioned in the FAQ, the 'newbie' often starts whining that no one here can answer 
his question. 
Someone lateley wrote here (on this thread??): 'You can't learn programming without
getting your hands dirty!'
So bite through the gigalines of information in the FAQ and learn and if someone tells 
you to do so, don't hesitate to have a look, the information is there, he found it already.

cu,
Guenther

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