I think your response justifies Blake's post even more (not that it even
needs justifying...). You are blindly arguing, and for some odd reason
think that using your own ignorance as a weapon will prove your superior
reasoning ability? You are one of the sheep, go moo somewhere. Better
yet, go RTFM.
jon
Peter Lairo wrote:
> Oh the high and mighty programmers. You remind me of puffed-up royalty
> who try to convince the "common people" that only blue blooded persons
> could possibly understand the complexities of running a state.
>
> Blake, why don't you live in an arab country (or any
> monarchy/dictatorship) where there are others who think they are the
> only ones capable of making descisions/judgements because they are "in
> the know".
>
> I know that as programmer, you are frequently exposed to criticism - and
> that can be frustrating/alienating/etc. I understand. But, there is no
> reason for the arrogance and cynicism you are displaying. I makes you
> look weak and insecure.
>
> PS. If making a decent text editor is so hard (as judged by you
> sarcastic response to my inquiry), why then are there (and always have
> been) a plethora of share-/freeware text editors? It seems that every
> beginning programmer starts out with programming a text editor.
>
>
> Blake Ross wrote:
>
>>> We're accepting patches. Oh, but you're not a programmer. Thanks
>>> for judging the difficulty of a programming task, though!
>>
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>> --Blake
>>
>>>
>>> Mozilla having problems with text editing really baffles me. I
>>> thought text editing would be one of the simples excercises - even
>>> DOS 5.1 edit.exe and Windoze 3.1 notepad could do it without any
>>> problems.
>>>
>>> Blaming it on screen resolution is just lame.
>>>
>>>
>>>
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