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- From: aragon@crl.com (James Aragon)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: Off topic post
- Date: 31 Jan 1996 14:12:47 -0800
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- References: <TANMOY.96Jan27121202@qcd.lanl.gov> <4egtr8$bn0@ns.RezoNet.NET> <TANMOY.96Jan28235629@qcd.lanl.gov> <DLyM02.9zn@emr1.emr.ca> <4ejfuc$i80@solutions.solon.com>
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- Peter Seebach (seebs@solutions.solon.com) wrote:
-
- > Consider; Tanmoy has a lot of experience with C. Tanmoy has finite time.
- > If people want answers from Tanmoy, the least they can do is follow a few
- > *reasonable* rules. (They could legitimately be expected to follow any rules
-
- Then wouldn't it be to everyone's benefit if Tanmoy (and other comp.lang.c
- regulars) were to assume that a person who posts a question that does not
- follow those reasonable rules does NOT expect an answer from Tanmoy (or
- other regular with the same "reasonable rules"). Then the best use of his
- finite time is to SKIP that post, and leave it to those who DO want to
- answer it. He need not waste his time commenting on posts that he doesn't
- like.
-
- > 2 and 5 between them rule out the far keyword; either it is irrelevant
- > to the question, or the question is not about C.
- ^^^^^^^^^^^
-
- Is anyone else as tired of this bit of false pedantry as I am? If we're
- going to hear this claim repeatedly, could we please at least not omit the
- word "standard" from in front of "C"? There was C long before there was a
- C standard and there are many varieties of C other than standard C.
- Although standard C is probably the most useful variety by virtue of
- being, well, standardized, let's at least quit pretending that any
- deviation from, or extension to, the standard, however slight, results in
- some totally new, unnamed, hitherto unknown programming language with
- completely mysterious and unknown semantics.
-
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