Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail
From: The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: GIMP 3.0.0-RC1
Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2025 13:21:42 +0000
Organization: A little, after lunch
Lines: 31
Message-ID: <vo7lp6$25uo$2@dont-email.me>
References: <vkjmdg$30kff$1@dont-email.me> <FEYcP.131275$aTp4.70494@fx09.iad>
 <35a09fa5-08b1-8121-51c7-28d3aac1cd0f@example.net>
 <CaidP.24348$DPp5.20979@fx01.iad>
 <3002e7b9-095e-c292-1202-b151f7776587@example.net>
 <ltmbcmFjcgpU1@mid.individual.net>
 <ba6263f8-1e7f-5eb1-ae06-757f2ed7a018@example.net>
 <lto9qbFso18U3@mid.individual.net>
 <slrnvnegk1.2cl6d.lars@cleo.beagle-ears.com>
 <8b262a1f-507f-ef10-e4d3-a981dca5b7d1@example.net>
 <vl8jdq$3st6d$1@dont-email.me> <vl8jul$3sqfa$4@dont-email.me>
 <vl8otk$3splv$3@dont-email.me> <vl8qm7$3u6t2$1@dont-email.me>
 <vl93dl$3vkun$1@dont-email.me> <vl9449$3vo6h$3@dont-email.me>
 <vl9aov$pp7$1@dont-email.me> <vla4hr$5n4v$1@dont-email.me>
 <vlblqj$harb$1@dont-email.me> <lttopaFoh2cU8@mid.individual.net>
 <vle8uk$12sii$2@dont-email.me>
 <c686fb74-4fac-0809-7005-417c76ee0e3b@example.net>
 <nbReP.633803$oR74.271654@fx16.iad> <NnVeP.44028$vfee.11890@fx45.iad>
 <vo6ubb$3ue2q$2@dont-email.me>
 <RhOdnY5Kb8vulDr6nZ2dnZfqnPudnZ2d@earthlink.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Injection-Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2025 14:21:43 +0100 (CET)
Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="73cbcebefed2d6f321debb4f14d0b736";
	logging-data="71640"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org";	posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19863mtQG9hkYJKovG8nscrJEQuDoCk2ck="
User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird
Cancel-Lock: sha1:gfp9HKUyVyYdIJymPFfL5A2jTL0=
In-Reply-To: <RhOdnY5Kb8vulDr6nZ2dnZfqnPudnZ2d@earthlink.com>
Content-Language: en-GB
Bytes: 3339

On 08/02/2025 07:36, WokieSux282@ud0s4.net wrote:
> IMHO, a lot of this is just "busy work" from
>    people looking for something to do. Their
>    idea of "better" means "better for ME - and
>    screw YOU". It's not better for the average,
>    or even professional, user.

In my careers - I have had several - us Engineers were humble creatures 
who wrote clean workmanlike well documented and tested code in the hope 
that no one would ever have to write it again, and if they did, it would 
be instantly understandable. Code was. to quote my friend 'Higgy',  'all 
just bits, in silicon'.

Later I encountered computer scientists who spoke a strange language 
with artistic terms in it like 'elegance' 'intellectual purity' 
'algorithmic efficiency'  'Turing complete' 'object oriented' and other 
words that seemed to have nothing whatever to do with actually writing 
testing and debugging clean code that met the spec and worked in a 
timescale less than eternity...

I decided they were all frustrated ArtStudents™ with Physics envy who 
could not  do HardSums™

And should never be let anywhere near a critical project.

-- 
All political activity makes complete sense once the proposition that 
all government is basically a self-legalising protection racket, is 
fully understood.