http://www.blitzmax.com/Community/posts.php?topic=82150#928845
hmmm, it was Mark that called sswift "an obnoxious tool of the highest order".....
Apparently.....
I'm not even sure what to say..
I'm just shocked at how unprofessional that is. Well I think my time on this forum is finished as I don't use any of the product anymore, and it seems that petty is a flavor shared between the community and it's lords.
Although most will hold Mark in extremely high standings with regards to his abilities many fail to see that he is just an average Joe who happened to release a couple of products at just the right time for them to become popular. He's only one man, and regardless of what he would like to see himself releasing, or when, he will fall to the human factor of missing deadlines, running into tough bugs, and getting distracted with the real world.
Releasing Blitzbasic, then Blitz3D (just as DarkBasic was failing to meet their commitments to customers) was an excellent move. I fear that Blitz3D was the pinnacle of his BRL career though. Regardless of what you claim about Blitzmax, it will never be what it was supposed to be.
So essentially he is just another bedroom coder who did well for himself (no offense intended to him on that). He is just another one of us (well, some of us), with the difference being we're using his tools, and he's using someone else's tools. Those who forget that believe he is the be-all-end-all of programmers hanging on his every word as if it were a God handing down scripture and tend to hold him to some higher level of efficiency which is unreachable, not only for Mark, but for the one holding him on that pedestal.
hmmm, it was Mark that called sswift "an obnoxious tool of the highest order".....
Apparently.....
I'm not even sure what to say..
I'm just shocked at how unprofessional that is. Well I think my time on this forum is finished as I don't use any of the product anymore, and it seems that petty is a flavor shared between the community and it's lords.
Although most will hold Mark in extremely high standings with regards to his abilities many fail to see that he is just an average Joe who happened to release a couple of products at just the right time for them to become popular. He's only one man, and regardless of what he would like to see himself releasing, or when, he will fall to the human factor of missing deadlines, running into tough bugs, and getting distracted with the real world.
Releasing Blitzbasic, then Blitz3D (just as DarkBasic was failing to meet their commitments to customers) was an excellent move. I fear that Blitz3D was the pinnacle of his BRL career though. Regardless of what you claim about Blitzmax, it will never be what it was supposed to be.
So essentially he is just another bedroom coder who did well for himself (no offense intended to him on that). He is just another one of us (well, some of us), with the difference being we're using his tools, and he's using someone else's tools. Those who forget that believe he is the be-all-end-all of programmers hanging on his every word as if it were a God handing down scripture and tend to hold him to some higher level of efficiency which is unreachable, not only for Mark, but for the one holding him on that pedestal.