Also, how much higher mathematics have you done?
That’s not a flip question, nor a prying one. It is directly relevant to the discussion at hand, because its answer makes a difference.
You see, I’m trying to understand your biases. I know what it looks like, but I’m hoping I’m wrong about it. That’s of course why I’ve asked.
All I keep hearing is the same old grumpy-grampa story about walking to school in the rain uphill everyday both ways — that is, that ASCII was good enough for you when you were a tad, so by gawd awlmighty it should be good enough for these selfdeluding young whippersnappers.
You are also brazen in your profoundly disturbing advocacy of the offensive position that everybody else in the world should learn your bloody language instead of ever once admitting that just maybe you ought to learn theirs.
As for Unicode, just because you don’t understand it or don’t like it doesn’t mean there is something “wrong” with it. Most of your statements about it are either flat-out wrong or so misleading and misrepresentative as to make any rational person wonder why you would be intentionally deceptive.
Unicode is not going away. You’ll be dead long before it is, something pretty much guaranteed by your “over my dead body” attitude about condescending to learning anything new. Unicode is here, and it’s here to stay, and no amount of old FUDdy bellyaching from you is going to change that. That means you jolly well ought to get used to it. Either that, or retire and crawl back into your tiny little hole and die. Your choice. Some of us prefer to engage the world, not fight against it. And that’s our choice.
I haven’t seen you doing anything to try to make Perl better, whether in its Unicode handling, its text processing, nor indeed anything else. I haven’t seen any bug reports, patches, or even questions. And I certainly haven’t seen any feedback from you during the review period for the various public issues that come up. That gives the appearance that all you want to do is complain, and that makes you part of the problem set, not the solution set.
If you won’t work with the rest of us to make the world a better place, than at least have the human decency to stop trying to make it a worse one — just let us go about our own business unhindered and unharangued.
Perhaps I’m wrong. If so, it’s perfectly easy for you to show me that in a way that is publicly credible. Merely publish your full legal name like the rest of us responsible internet citizens do, and I’ll search the relevant discussion archives for your constructive participation in these matters. As soon as I find it, I’ll gladly reconsider my position. Frankly, I’m looking forward to it, because the alternative is pretty sickening.
Otherwise you’re just another greyheaded internet loudmouth who sickly enjoys bitching and attacking just to wind people up and waste their time, and who can’t be bothered to do one damn thing toward bettering the situation he won’t stop ranting about.
In other words, put up or shut up. One or another of those two little spirits who sits upon our shoulders feeding us counsel is whispering that the smart money says you’ll do neither, but we shall see what we shall see, shan’t we now? My cards are on the table for everyone to look at; time for you to show yours.
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