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Bill Felton wrote:
> 
> JDenmark wrote:
> >
> > Bill Fenton,
> 
> Tsk.  Can't even get the name right.
> 
> > Your rudeness, ridicule and use of stereotypes, says little of your
> > professionalism.
> 

You know, I almost missed this first time around, but I really
cannot let it go by.
You are absolutely correct, although not in the way you intend,
when you state that my attitude and presentation say little of
my professionalism.  They say nothing of it at all.
I am a professional Smalltalk programmer and educator.  My responses
to issues outside those realms is also outside the realm of
my professionalism.  It is not incumbent upon me to behave as if
I were a professional *resource* for you, or others, to place.
It is not incumbent upon me to be polite to those I consider a blot
on the landscape within which I exercise my profession.
To assert, as you do, that my behavior towards you reflects upon
my professionalism is to drastically mistake both what my
profession is, and what it requires.  When the code runs, it
doesn't matter who I was nice to, or who I agreed with, it
matters that the code run.  
To imply, as you do, that my treatment of you and your ilk is
indicative of my probable treatment of my students or my professional
colleagues during the course of work is merely to engage in a smear
that cannot be justified by the facts.

Bill Felton
