What do you mean? Hasn't anyone thought that people could be banned by mistake?
This is terribly unfair and nonsensical.
Not that I have a lot to lose by abandoning this account, but as a matter of principle it would be nice to have it back, as it is clear that I haven't done anything that deserves such a punishment.
But nothing that justifies a ban. I am not a troll, let alone a recurrent one. Not to mention that the practice of hellbanning is highly unfair and misleading.
Any clue on who I should contact to clear this out?
I totally agree. i.e. plural should be handled by i18n libraries. Same thing for the thousands separator, different locales use different separators/styles.
I am personally grateful to Stallman (and many other people) for making it possible for me to have access to simple programming tools that I wouldn't have otherwise.
That may not look as important today, but it for sure was in the past, when charging for software was the natural choice ("shareware" anyone?).
I do not personally approve of the "rms attitude" in general, as I find it too extreme, sometimes plain rude (I can't forget that he fell asleep during the first talk of his that I attended). It's true that he's got the kind of profile that would fit a hard-line political leader that refuses to adapt to social change.
However, I believe that mixing up Stallman's attitude and discourse (and personal hygiene or lack thereof) with his legacy and the priceless contribution he gave to computing world wide is plain wrong.
A silly question: were there not scripting languages at the time ROOT was developed? Don't get me wrong, it's not like I hate C++, but it doesn't seem to me like the easiest language ever to build a stable/reliable interpreter for.
"With many rapidly evolving alternatives in the NoSQL space, providing a paper that compares them will be out of date as soon as it is published, but some blogs have."
This is terribly unfair and nonsensical.
Not that I have a lot to lose by abandoning this account, but as a matter of principle it would be nice to have it back, as it is clear that I haven't done anything that deserves such a punishment.