Unsurprisingly, this kind of attitude got him kicked of his own project.

"Those not comfortable with toxic language should pretend this is a religious text."

I love it.

Ouch! Truth hurts! ;)

The worst part is that American programmers may never be hit by most of the horrors of LC_CTYPE et al, so will not fix it for those that do.

And the poor guy who installed Postgres and tries to sort Arabic can't figure out why in Heaven's name the order seems random.

At this point, it is a cultural artifact.

It's from a time before StackOverflow (and StackExchange at large) got very ridged with all the rules. Back then, there were a lot of "fun" questions and answers, including the infamous "What is the best comment in source code you have ever encountered?"[1]

Some old timers might remember those days... SO was a much more fun place back then. Now it's rife with down-voters, close-voters and hostile-towards-newbie folks.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/184618/what-is-the-best-...

The post was locked because it had received hundreds of flags and comments complaining that the post was broken -- even with the moderator note at the bottom -- and several edits trying to "fix" the post. See https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/250099#comment637_2...