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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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.