Oh boy! It took a while and intensive usage of Webster's College Dictionary to digest that. I am really sorry that my knowledge of English is not good enough to get it all, and even more that I am unable to express my own thinking.

The trigger for my reply was the idea, that I would have been the initiator of this threat and what would be going on in my mind after being raged by such a hurricane of offensiveness. Something like: 'Jeez - I.. ahm.. just wanted to know.. ahm well.. sorry.. where is the rope to end my inferior form of life...'. Reading further ahead through this thread I saw even more of that rage.

After reading your answer I can tell you that your means of signal stream detection (I don't want to qoute the original designation of that appliance) is well adjusted. I like to see that your apology comes out in the same straight manner as your assault.

I agree with what you said concerning the Walter discussion. In the few months that I am UT member I have seen quite a lot of those strange theory based disputes. Usually these threads start with two different points of view, will drift more and more into personal attacks and end up with both sides refering to their reputations, academic backgrounds and projects done. I always wondered, how people working with computers could be so dogmatic about some theory far from this world. IMO, computer science isn't an exact science. So there is nothing in our business that can be proofed theoretically or might be derived from some simple axioms. Especially with the background of operating systems and programming languages that aren't based on some clear theory, that grew empirically - in other words that are one great mess - it is nonsense to apply some pure theory. I think that computer science can give us hints how to do it. That's about it. Everybody who did both, scientific and practical work with that stuff, realized at some point that the application of pure OOP or pure relational data models will lead right into disaster. Then why should we get stirred up about it?

What we need is to take the best out of everything and put it together to meet our goals. To do so, you need to have one thing: experiance. That is why I appreciate you: you got a lot of experiance and you share your knowledge with others. That is the basic idea of a forum like this. I can understand your reaction, but I think the whole thing is not worth it to get high blood pressure.

Being dogmatic is ridiculous - and dangerous in every part of life, like history has shown over and over again - and will keep us from reaching optimal results.

Keep on going like you did before - maybe a little bit more calm sometimes!