Hey Fons!

I would not call your words "hilarious", but I certainly do not agree with them. Even in the original discussion, if we want to go back to that, I disagreed and wrote up a pretty lengthy reply.

Initially you said that I have misrepresented your views. And, of course, I would like to be as accurate as possible and to avoid misrepresentation and straw-men arguments. However, I have the right to simply disagree. And whether in my talk I choose to be super academic about it or make it sound hilarious is a matter of style.


But just to make it clear, my goal here is to make sure I am not misrepresenting views or missing better arguments. So, to go through your points so far:

1. You said that I did not name you - and I replied that I used words that happened to be authored by you to demonstrate a more generic attitude. This was not meant to be Fons quote. I hope this is cleared. Next time I will not use that quote, I will simply rephrase it as a generic statement.

2. You say that there was a wider context and that the audience does not know it. I do not agree that there is any additional context required for the audience. I also do not see how in the talk I misrepresent your phrase. If it is so, please explain what is this wider context and why this is a misrepresentation. Otherwise I would not be able to act on your feedback.

3. Whether there are "right ideas" or not was not the topic of my talk and I do not think that this can be misunderstood. Obviously, we are talking about the right ideas relative to set goals, in this case functional software. I will think over whether I can rephrase that, but in my talk I did not make any emphasis on the words "right ideas" and, as one can readily see, this was not a topic of discussion at all.



Thank you for your patience, Fons, I appreciate your feedback!