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Yeah! Screwing it up for everybody is what standards committees are for :P
by dottrap 12y ago
Yeah! Screwing it up for everybody is what standards committees are for :P
- dottrap 12y agoModded down because somebody can't take a joke? Truth hurts doesn't it? If you want serious examples, look at OpenGL standardization and how every competent GL developer has to work around the standard via GL extensions because the standards body fails to deliver anything useful. Here's just one historical gripe. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/13/opengl_firestorm/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/13/opengl_firestorm/ Or look to Douglas Crockford's snipes at the ECMA standards committee for JavaScript, such as how they failed to clean up known problems until only after the hilarious talk "WAT" (https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat) went viral and really humiliated them.