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Usenet Encoding: yEnc
Motor writes "Anyone remotely interested in usenet binary newsgroups must have noticed the spread of yEnc. yEnc is an encoding scheme for usenet binaries which avoids the enormous (30-40%) bloat associated with the schemes currently in use - which all have to produce 7-bit data to stop ancient newsservers from choking. A good thing, surely? Well, not according to some people. The guy has some good points about yEnc and standards, but I can't help thinking that "standards" people have endlessly discussed better encoding schemes, and nothing has come out of it. yEnc may not be perfect, but it works and it's here - hence the rapid adoption. What do you think?"
If everyone is as anal as the poster of this story and cares about elegance and "pretty code" and whatnot, we all would not be using a x86 processor because its architecture is just "sooo damn ugly!!". Get over it. If it works, it works, does it really matter how anything is implemented if it does its job just perfectly fine?
:) Real life is not pretty, deal with it... stop living in fantasy world.
Personally, I will adopt anything that will make my life (not the developer's life) easier. yenc allows me to download 30-40% less, so I use it. Why? because if I don't use it, I won't be able to obtain the mp3s, the games, the warez, the pr0n, etc, etc, etc that I wanted