Re: Re: Programmers, script languages, and Unicode

[Anonymous Monk]

Joe Spolsky is an

Well if you can't even get his name right...

arrogant

I see this all the time. Someone writes an article stating their view on something and they're instantly labled "arrogant" for doing so. Do you really think this helps to create informative debate?

idiot

Perhaps. I also disagree with Joel on many things. Consider this though: what have you written and made available lately? People don't read Joel's articles because they're perfect, they read them because they're accessible, entertaining, and they learn something from them. So are you saying they shouldn't read them? That Joel should stop writing them? Where's a better alternative?

For a long, long time he's been writing nothing but opinionated rants that have no value

Perhaps you should read the article. This one provides direct information that can be applied to improve your code and raises awareness of an improtant but rarely considered issue.

I don't even bother reading his blog anymore.

So why are you commenting here? If you're going to comment on the quality of something, at least know what it is.

Nice to see that the trolls are registering accounts though. I'm sure that will make many people happy.