Lars Aronsson wrote:
Austin Hair wrote:
When I suggested a state-machine-based parser,
people laughed. I
guess history counts for something, after all.
Come on, stupid, this is free software. Writing running code is
everything, making suggestions is nothing. People laugh at
anybody who writes suggestions instead of code.
Calling people "stupid" is not helping your credibility.
People laughed at me when I offered to rewrite the software in Perl. I
abandoned it, largely because of this unwelcoming disapprovement of the
effort.
You say that coding is everything, but you are clearly not seeing that
people are not likely to code something unless they have reason to
believe that the outcome will be welcome. Throwing suggestions about and
discussing them helps everybody form a picture of what is most likely to
spark enthusiasm in the community, and hence, what is most worth coding.
Timwi