In message <199906172016.NAA04597@lestat.nas.nasa.gov> Jason Thorpe writes:
: The most annoying thing was the fact that he published a different API
: *first*, then decided he wanted to "discuss" it.

Why did that annoy you?  It was in a code base that you don't use and
was fairly trivial, but it gained a lot of performance.  Forgive my
saying so, but it sounds like a childish reaction to me.

Warner