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Re:The original .NET garbage collector was written in Common... by oaiey on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @12:45AM (#23307507)
Is it a bad code smell (see the old refactoring book)? Yes. Can there be rationale why no one acts on it? Yes. Is that okay? Yes.

Code purity is not everything. It is a single metric. Maoni maintains this file for the .NET Framework, Silverlight, .NET Core and nowadays Mono. She and her group will have reasons.

And honestly, all accounts from her co-workers describe her as a wonderful person with incredible insights. They talk about her in deepest respect and friendliness. Calling her crazy is the opposite of reality.

Re:The original .NET garbage collector was written in Common... by cheerlessbog on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @01:03AM (#23307587)
It's Maoni and she is great. GP is unreasonably personalizing a formatting preference.
Re:The original .NET garbage collector was written in Common... by oaiey on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @02:43AM (#23308127)
Thanks. I corrected her name. What culture influenced reading can produce :)
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Re:The original .NET garbage collector was written in Common... by dang on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @04:01PM (#23315764)
You can't attack someone like that here and if you do it again we will ban you.

Attacking unorthodox preferences in programming is bad enough. Chuck Moore and Arthur Whitney like to see their entire programs in one screen. Most people consider that crazy but they are two of the greatest programmers of all time. If someone else likes a single long file, that's their preference. Here's what we should do: stop calling people crazy and stop punishing differences. We need more outliers in programming. The reflex to knock people down when they deviate is a huge limiting factor in this business.

Re:The original .NET garbage collector was written in Common... by junke on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @08:23AM (#23310215)
Please reread your comment and think about your attitude.
Re:The original .NET garbage collector was written in Common... by pjmlp on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @02:24AM (#23308022)
I only know her from the talks she has given and the blog posts, she really looks wonderful person technically and privately, and a very good example to show to girls with technical aspirations.
Re:The original .NET garbage collector was written in Common... by flocial on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @04:08AM (#23308550)
I saw her interview and she was just so awesome and confident. She grew up in China, graduated with a degree in Chemistry, learned to speak fluent English, and then somehow ended up being the sole maintainer (using the term loosely because she was actively improving it the whole time) of a mission critical piece of code for an entire ecosystem at Microsoft. Color me impressed. Definitely a top notch engineer regardless of gender full stop.