adgar2·14 jaar geleden·discuss> What an embarrassing post to be occupying the top of this thread. Blaming Markdown.pl for security flaws?I believe markdown.pl is being blamed for over 100 bugs. Not just security flaws.> I suppose the memory corruption bugs in the "optimized" C Markdown parsers are somehow his fault too?Strawman, you're better than that.> He wrote a text-to-HTML parser with a particularly elegant little language design and got on with his lifeAnd he did a horrible job of it. Horrible. But he considers himself the BDFL of Markdown. Break that down for me.> which involves writing more than keeping up with bug reports in Perl scriptsHe clearly can't keep up with any bug reports, so it's good his life is more broad than bug reports.> Get over yourself; comments like this make us all look bad.No, comments like this make us look like we have higher expectations than "it worked on my machine, suck a dick!"
I believe markdown.pl is being blamed for over 100 bugs. Not just security flaws.
> I suppose the memory corruption bugs in the "optimized" C Markdown parsers are somehow his fault too?
Strawman, you're better than that.
> He wrote a text-to-HTML parser with a particularly elegant little language design and got on with his life
And he did a horrible job of it. Horrible. But he considers himself the BDFL of Markdown. Break that down for me.
> which involves writing more than keeping up with bug reports in Perl scripts
He clearly can't keep up with any bug reports, so it's good his life is more broad than bug reports.
> Get over yourself; comments like this make us all look bad.
No, comments like this make us look like we have higher expectations than "it worked on my machine, suck a dick!"