You may not have been present during XML's ascendency. Naggum's rhetorical voice was a totally appropriate response. Being shouted down by the XML goon squad got real old real fast.
Sometimes you get so frustrated with being polite and civil and have no patience but to let loose with as vivid a picture of the problem as you can possibly unleash.
Civility leads to complacency. That was the post of someone with some serious conviction, not a passive participant who was indifferent to standards.
