On 22 September 2015 at 16:38, Tomas Lycken <[email protected]> wrote:
> If anything I wrote came off as a "thinly veiled 'fuck you'", I am > sincerely sorry; that's nowhere near what I meant to say. > Thank you. I guess I misinterpreted your comments and reacted more harshly than I should. Then, you replied that "Formatting.jl looks next to useless" and "I really > don't understand why sprintf is such a big deal. If C can have one, why > can't Julia?" I interpreted that, apparently wrongfully, as implying not > only that you disliked the currently available implementations, but also > that you thought it couldn't be so hard to do better, so my second answer > had a different solution to the problem. (Note also that the two posts > aren't directed at the same person.) > Well, I apologize if I made it sound that printf() was easy to write. You have to admit that most languages provide printf() out of the box, so it does seem odd that Julia does not. > Re-reading the thread I think both our tones are harsher than necessary, > and I apologize for my part in that. > I apologize as well. Both of my emails were harsher than they should have been. Daniel.
