On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 08:35:25PM -0400, Simetrical wrote:
On 10/27/07, Lars Aronsson lars@aronsson.se wrote:
Can you please stop arguing about the speed of hypothetical programs? Go write the C parser or shut up.
Was that a productive remark?
It might be.
If the productive time (not to mention morale) of people who can actually do the work is taken up continuing to have to tell optimistic by poorly informed people just how difficult that work is, then scaring such people off to do their homework on that point, preemptively, can in fact be useful.
:-)
Cheers -- jra