Heh -- didn't mean anything derogatory
I was just noticing most of our discussion in the "theory and practice of programming" forum tends to be theory. Your story was a welcome difference. I agree that such content tends to produce short threads ("very little participation"), but that doesn't mean they're somehow less enjoyable.
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