I'm aware. fnid just seemed to be under the impression that ESR was a newbie that was genuinely looking for help from more experienced hackers. I was just showing that he (ESR) is a noted (notorious) figure that should know better than to make noobish mistakes in code.
I never said that he was any good; merely that he has notoriety. I thought that made that clear. I guess not, so let me reiterate:
Jgrahamc commented that ESR's code here is pretty crappy. I agree. Fnid comes in and accuses jgrahamc of being too harsh. It appears to my mind's eye that Fnid doesn't know who ESR is and naivly assumes that he is some random newbie that would appreciate help, rather than a notorious figure with a number of projects books under his belt. I'm pointing out that it is not wrong for jgrahamc to call him on it. If ESR's is mostly self publication, them I am even more correct.
To further elaborate, if Bjarne Stroustrup wrote an C compiler that was ineptly coded and someone said the code was lousy, one would not reply, 'lighten up, this was a good first try for a newbie,' unless one did not know who Bjarne Strousup was.
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gpsd is another, but esr seems to have trouble understanding parts of it.
CML2 is yet another, though it failed to gain acceptance by the kernel group.
the GNU ncurses library was maintained by Mr. Raymond for a while.
fetchmail wasn't an original idea, it came out of UC Berkeley's "popclient".
ESR has also famously over-claimed his experience (several times).
I'm aware. fnid just seemed to be under the impression that ESR was a newbie that was genuinely looking for help from more experienced hackers. I was just showing that he (ESR) is a noted (notorious) figure that should know better than to make noobish mistakes in code.
You're assuming that because he's loud, he's good.
Truth is, he is loud, but... he's not very good at writing software.
He's not bad at books, provided he has an editor working with him. The writing on his blog is a mess.
I never said that he was any good; merely that he has notoriety. I thought that made that clear. I guess not, so let me reiterate:
Jgrahamc commented that ESR's code here is pretty crappy. I agree. Fnid comes in and accuses jgrahamc of being too harsh. It appears to my mind's eye that Fnid doesn't know who ESR is and naivly assumes that he is some random newbie that would appreciate help, rather than a notorious figure with a number of projects books under his belt. I'm pointing out that it is not wrong for jgrahamc to call him on it. If ESR's is mostly self publication, them I am even more correct.
To further elaborate, if Bjarne Stroustrup wrote an C compiler that was ineptly coded and someone said the code was lousy, one would not reply, 'lighten up, this was a good first try for a newbie,' unless one did not know who Bjarne Strousup was.