On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 08:35:25PM -0400, Simetrical wrote:
On 10/27/07, Lars Aronsson <lars(a)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
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