in reply to Programmers, script languages, and Unicode

Joe Spolsky is an arrogant idiot who did write a couple good articles, such as "Good software takes ten years to write" and is now only coasting on the success of those few articles. For a long, long time he's been writing nothing but opinionated rants that have no value. I don't even bother reading his blog anymore.
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by jeffa (Bishop) on Oct 11, 2003 at 15:10 UTC
    Well, i found the article to be quite informative. Joe might possibly be arrogant, but i appreciate his "rants" none-the-less. This one was less rant and more info, so you really should read it instead of ranting yourself. :P

    jeffa

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Re: Re: Programmers, script languages, and Unicode
by Anonymous Monk on Oct 11, 2003 at 22:06 UTC
    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.

Re: Re: Programmers, script languages, and Unicode
by vek (Prior) on Oct 11, 2003 at 20:18 UTC

    Joe Spolsky

    s/Joe/Joel/;

    Well, whatever your views are on Spolsky (and I must admit that I think he's a little overrated), I thought this particular article was actually quite interesting.

    -- vek --