You missed the point [LWN.net]

You missed the point

Posted Mar 27, 2008 5:49 UTC (Thu) by lysse (subscriber, #3190)
In reply to: You missed the point by sylware
Parent article: Striking gold in binutils

How dare you be this dismissive of *anyone's* work without an alternative to offer? Especially
on that flimsiest of pretexts, ideology?

You want something done *your* way, do it yourself. Otherwise, take what you're offered.
Telling someone that they have to junk what they've done is bad enough when they're only as
far as having it working; when they're handily trouncing what they aim to replace, telling
them that their replacement isn't "good enough" - because their choice of implementation
language doesn't satisfy *your aesthetic tastes* - only exposes *you* as the fool you are.

(Unfortunately, yours is the voice of the majority, and humanity is doomed.)

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Being dismissive of another's work

Posted Mar 28, 2008 0:02 UTC (Fri) by giraffedata (subscriber, #1954) [Link]

How dare you be this dismissive of *anyone's* work without an alternative to offer?

The way I read it, sylware did offer an alternative: classic binutils 'ld'. He says even as slow as it is, it's better because of the C++ issue.

You want something done *your* way, do it yourself. Otherwise, take what you're offered.

Surely you don't mean that. We all take a third option all the time: do without.

Being dismissive of another's work

Posted Mar 28, 2008 22:30 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Doing without a linker? Neat trick! ;}

Being dismissive of another's work

Posted Apr 3, 2008 3:42 UTC (Thu) by lysse (subscriber, #3190) [Link]

Doing without is a subclass of doing it yourself.