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In article <3a896c71@news.povray.org> , "Scott Hill"
<sco### [at] ncgraphics net> wrote:
> <rant on> Having thought on this a little - stuff like this really
> annoys me - standards committees are meant to reach an agreement about what
> the standard means, not keep changing there minds, dev tools developers
> should stop arsing about (though as I said - it's hardly their fault with
> moving targets an' all that jazz) and only release complete libraries that,
> at the minimum, comply to _some sort of standard_ and we programmers should
> all stop just taking all this shit lying down - we bitch and moan privately
> about the shit standards, buggy dev tools, moving targets and the like but
> bugger all get's done - it's about time we used some of the power we have -
> without any programmers doing any actual development on a platform, that
> platform will die - we have the ultimate power to decide what makes it and
> what doesn't - we should exercise it and stop putting up with this shit -
> after all, it's us that get's the blame in the end - Project behind schedule
> ? That'll be the lazy developers. Bloaty code ? That'll be the lazy
> developers. Bug-ridden shit ? That'll be the lazy programmers. Trouble is
> sometimes you only get shit to work with and no matter how well you sculpt
> it, shit is shit. <rant off>
It is a standard, but nobody cares :-(
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Thorsten Froehlich, Duisburg, Germany
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