[vorbis] Why is Vorbis development slow?

[Graham Mitchell]

> Graham said in his email that he found tuning too
> difficult, I certainly found it difficult. That's two
> people who would have done tuning if we had found it
> easier.

I didn't say *I* found tuning too difficult, I said *tuning is difficult*.  
Suggesting better documentation would produce a whole army of tuners is like 
saying that better shoes and track coaches would produce a bunch of people 
who can run a mile in under four minutes.

The availability of the resources isn't the primary issue; the difficulty of 
the task itself is.

How many people have you seen come up with a better general sorting algorithm 
than Dr. Hoare's quicksort?  It's been decades, and no one has been able to 
improve on it!  Is it because there's not enough documentation out there to 
explain sorting to people?

No, it's because Dr. Hoare is a freaking genius, and most people are not.  
Coming up with a novel n-log-n sort is just plain hard, no matter the tools.

I'm running late for work, so that's all I'll say for now.


-- 
Graham Mitchell - computer science teacher, Leander High School
"It is not as a child that I believe and confess Christ Jesus.  My Hosanna is
born in a furnace of doubt."
	-- Dostoevsky

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