Comment by bigiain
13 years ago
"Enraged" huh? For "_eight years_"?
Care to show us your alternative? It'll be on Github or GoogleCode, or maybe your personal blog, somewhere we can download it, try it out, and criticize it too, right?
Surely 8 years of rage is enough encouragement to write your own replacement for ~1000 odd lines of Perl?
Or by "enraged", did you mean "annoyed enough to write critical posts on random internet sites, but not motivated enough to spend an evening or two solving the problem myself"?
"NERD RAGE" indeed…
There are many great reimplimentations, another would only compound the interoperability issue.
The real problem cannot be solved without some forward action on his part. He has refused over and over again.
"The real problem cannot be solved without some forward action on his part."
Sure it can - you write something better, then get everybody who's already using Gruber's version or one of it's presumably also-flawed reimplementations to switch to yours. Or, is "8 years of enragement" really just keyboard-warrior-hyperbole on your part and an excuse to criticize someone who's achieved widespread adoption of some code you claim is 2nd rate, but which haven't bothered to improve or replace?
Besides, it sounds to me like David Greenspan has come up with a fine solution.
This is bot a privilege issue. Nobody appointed Gruber. Just do a better job and you'll be fine without his permission.