It's 02:01, I can't sleep, and there's a bunch of company
meetings today at 08:30 that appear increasingly boring as
the time approaches. It sort of rains on my parade of TODO
items - I could have finished libGIOP this
week. Instead, the game seems
to be snoozing through discussions of kernel hacking and
attending suffocatingly purposeless cocktail parties.
I need to get a potion distilled from the Smurf theme song
and inject myself with it.
So I am bothering to write this at all because aaronl is
being a total moron and I'm bored enough to respond:
"My biggest gripe about component architecture
is that I just don't understand when it would ever be
needed." -aaronl
So this essentially means that he has no clue why
components are good, but everyone else must be wrong
because he hasn't figured out how to use them. A classic
example of his Bigger Problem - not understanding use cases
beside his own exist.
"Sure, you can write code that will let you
browse the web in Emacs (and such code has been writen),
but this actually has to be implemented inside Emacs." -
aaronl
So this essentially means that he hasn't looked at how w3-
mode is actually implemented - it's a set of elisp files,
aka... a component.
I must admit, however, that Aaron's perspective is
refreshingly free from the burden of experience. In other
words, dudes, I want some of that crack that he's smoking,
because I seem to be having issues getting this dandelion
to produce the pink elephants he's seeing.
Rather than go on a stupid campaign to rip out features
which are generally needed, I suppose he could work on
adding fine-grained conditional feature & module selection,
so he could build his bubble world more conveniently, not
adversely impact those in the Big Blue Room, and benefit
embedded systems builders in the process.
I'm done with the unprovoked insults and needless griping,
so LART me and get back to your regularly scheduled world.
I'm sure by lunchtime I'll have gotten enough sleep to
regret this all.