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I Hate Advocacy Mon, 04 Aug 2003 11:21:40 -0800 Mon, 04 Aug 2003
11:21:40 -0800 en-us 60 Why I Hate Advocacy <a href="">Why I
Hate Advocacy.</a> Baseball, politics, and programming
languages? Mark Jason-Dominus created a classic article that is
really about the general human tendancy towards flawed dialogue
and the pitfalls surrounding evangelism, even though it's
specifically directed towards the perl programming community.
Indeed, as <a href="">in the past</a>, some may see the "spectre
of Metafilter itself" in Mark's words.,2003:site.27453 Mon, 04
Aug 2003 11:07:14 -0800 weston advocacy rhetoric discussion
Other ThemAndUs society civil dialogue By: weston One other
thing I thought I'd note: Mark <a href="">walks the walk</a>.
Near the time he must have been writing this article, I had a
question about a CPAN module which he'd author. I didn't
understand why he'd coded it a certain way and was curious, and
so I asked a question on comp.lang.pe