I have an ego the size of a small planet, but I'm not _alwa… - Linus Torvalds

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I have an ego the size of a small planet, but I'm not _always_ right [...].

Linus Torvalds

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Linus Benedict Torvalds (born 28 December 1969) is a Finnish-American computer programmer, best known as the creator of the Linux kernel.

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Alternative Names: Linus Benedict Torvalds • OH3LUS • LUS • Linus B. Torvalds • Torvalds

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XML is crap. Really. There are no excuses. XML is nasty to parse for humans, and it's a disaster to parse even for computers. There's just no reason for that horrible crap to exist.

So I would not be surprised if the globbing libraries, for example, will do NFD-mangling in order to glob "correctly", so even programs ported from real Unix might end up getting pathnames subtly changed into NFD as part of some hot library-on-library action with UTF hackery inside.

It's what I call "mental masturbation", when you engage is some pointless intellectual exercise that has no possible meaning.

I have an ego the size of a small planet, but I'm not _always_ right [...]. - Linus Torvalds

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