On Sunday, 26 May 2013 at 16:54:53 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
1. Make extraordinary claims
What is extraordinary about "UTF-8 is shit?" It is obviously so.
2. Refuse to back up said claims with small examples because "I
don't write toy code"
I never refused small examples. I have provided several analyses
of how a single-byte encoding would compare to UTF-8, along with
listing optimizations that make it much faster. I finally
refused to analyze Teoh's examples because he accused me of
trolling and demanded code as the only possible explanation.
3. Refuse to back up said claims with elaborate examples
because "It will
take too long"
You are confused. What I said is "I don't write toy code,
non-toy code would take too long, and you wouldn't understand it
anyway."
The whole demand for code is idiotic anyway.
If I outlined TCP/IP as a packet-switched network and briefly
sketched what the header might look like and the queuing
algorithms that I might use, I can just imagine you saying, "But
there's no code... how can I possibly understand what you're
saying without any code?" If you can't understand networking
without seeing working code, you're not equipped to understand it
anyway, same here.
4. Use arrogant tone throughout thread, imply that you're
smarter than the creators of UTF, and creators and long-time
contributors of D (never contribute code to D yourself)
Hey, if the shoe fits. :)
I actually had a lot of respect for Walter till I read this
thread. I can only assume that his past experience with code
pages was so maddening that he cannot be rational on the subject
of going to any single-byte encoding that would be similar, same
with others griping about code pages above. I also don't think
he and others are paying much attention to the various points I'm
raising, hence his recent claim that I wouldn't handle Chinese,
when I addressed that from the beginning.
Or it could just be that I'm much smarter than everybody else in
this thread, ;) I can't rule it out given the often silly
responses I've been getting.
Result: 70-post thread
Conclusion: Successful troll is successful :)
Conclusion: Vladimir trolls me because he doesn't understand what
I'm talking about, which is why he doesn't raise a single
technical point in this post.
