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> Every time I read in an article (or more typically in a headline) how some guy X "eviscerated" / "destroyed" some other guy Y and their argument, 9 times out
by michaelcampbell 5y ago
> Every time I read in an article (or more typically in a headline) how some guy X "eviscerated" / "destroyed" some other guy Y and their argument, 9 times out of 10 it just means some guy X had a different opinion.
Neither was said.
> And then he calmly and clearly eviscerated the very foundation of Knuth’s program.
- tpoacher 5y agoI fail to see how this is not a perfect example of the above. Just because he supposedly did it "calmly"? How did he "eviscerate" it? Did he have an objective metric where it scored low despite promises? Did he show it kills babies? No. He just wrote a different one which in his opinion was better. The author is simply exaggerating for effect.