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Heh. Looks like Zed was reading what people posted.

I can hardly describe how much more focused this revision comes across. Idiosyncratic but generally straightforward and (more interesting to me) much better examples on round 2.

I can't say that I disagree all that much with his talking points. For his sake, I hope his management career (resumption) goes well. Mongrel does seem like a well-written, strictly-RFC-compliant counterpoint to, say, Apache. (The latter being a fine example of Worse Is Better, viz. http://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html ...)



The key line in Version 2.0:

When I wrote this rant it was in kind of a private beta, but then it got out.

No kidding. Thank god my own diaries are handwritten!




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