On 08/06/12 05:30, Patrick Horgan wrote:
On 08/04/2012 02:43 AM, Shlomi Fish wrote:
Hi Patrick,
...elision by patrick...
Well, calling GNU Autotools "Autohell" is not an ad-hominem attack. However,
assuming that since I called it "Autohell" it is wrong (or "flamebait"), is.
See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem
Lol! Look in that article under abusive. It is exactly ad-hominem. By
doing a personal attack, calling it autohell, instead of having anything
to say about why it's good or not, you exactly fulfill the definition of
an ad-hominem attack.
Patrick
Patrick, you refer to a pseudo encyclopaedia but fail to read the very
first line:
>> An ad hominem (Latin for "to the man") short for argumentum ad
hominem, is an attempt to negate the truth of a claim by pointing out a
negative characteristic or belief of the person supporting it.
Autotool, or whatever is a program, software. It is not a man and can
not be the target of a _personal_ attack.
If someone finds a program "hellish" to use and calls it autohell, that
is humouristic. It may lack a specific point but it can not be ad hom.
Enough.
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