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> That's THEIR problem then. It is their problem, clearly. > Why should the original author care for that? That's the question. Don't you think it's easy to
by bch 9y ago
> That's THEIR problem then.
It is their problem, clearly.
> Why should the original author care for that?
That's the question. Don't you think it's easy to think of reasons, though? What if the person porting the code to a library was a later version of the original author?
- astrobe_ 9y agoWill you also call them lazy because they didn't care about being thread safe or UTF8-ready?
- bch 9y ago> Will you also call them lazy because... I said it's lazy resource management. I'm really not trying to condemn, here, just provoke questions.
- coldtea 9y ago>What if the person porting the code to a library was a later version of the original author? Then they know what they need to add, and can add it now that they need it -- instead of having it slowing them down when they didn't need it