To the extent that i am going to push the envelope of alea's rules, I would prefer if I were left alone on that and not joined.
I think I made a valid point regarding viewpoints, inside-outside the box, and the disregard for perspective that some may at times exhibit. Admittedly, I did it in a rather sneering fashion, but I think there is a place for sneering, and hence the envelope push.
There are simply matters at hand.
The VoidSphere has among it some remarkably well-informed and presumably knowledgeable members of what I will simply call a technical elite.
I do not mean that in the tea-party sneering way. I mean it genuinely. They know poop I do not and will never know. Important poop. I, personally, think that some of them fixate on their considerable knowledge while playing in places and pretending all sorts of things, and adopt a know-it-all attitude ... that they then assign to others.
I am no SheldonLevine or awk on these matters. But, I am no micro. Sorry micro, I've tried to help, I'm just not gaining traction. The temptation for those with superior knowledge in the central feature of a topic to run amok with that and then start prancing about in peripheral areas as if their knowledge of a wrench fully qualifies them to advise on how to run a neighborhood hardware store is embarrassing ... not to me, but to them.
24601 makes a clear and tight point: Grammar can be done correctly, why not? Techono elitists wander around saying what does and does not matter, as if their knowledge of a wrench informs them of these matters. They pretend to know. I, and 24601 in this example if I can be so bold, simply say : I have no idea if it matters, it is simple so DO IT.
The counter argument is only valid if doing it is difficult or cumbersome (in this case a tie and proof-reading).
To defend this failure, some resort to calling people dogs, dogs that wander around the inter tubes peeing on things.
This is what the dirtier side of the techno elite does. Rather than sticking to what they are good at ... identifying a wrench, they wander into calling people dogs for thinking that the wrench store should probably spell the word "wrench" correctly.
This would normally be removable content for just bitching about how much of a patent asshole awk is, but the point is I am speaking towards represents a mentality that Wave has relied on for years .... "They don't get it". Awk is simply the poster child of the thinking that leads to Wave's failures.
Somebody IS not getting something, and the wrench folks need to actually think outside the wrench (seemingly impossible) and recognize areas for improvement. Real critical improvement. Good wrenches get wasted all the time.
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