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- Path: crchh327.rich.bnr.ca!karlon
- From: karlon@bnr.ca (Karlon West)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: What is a right hand pointing arrow?
- Date: 22 Feb 1996 22:34:16 GMT
- Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Richardson, TX
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- Kazimir Kylheku (c2a192@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca) wrote:
- > In article <31200CDA.5240@netcom.com>, Karlon West <karlon@netcom.com> wrote:
- > >Dan Pop wrote:
- > >> 27 (033 or 0x1B) is ASCII ESC
- > >>
- > >> 26 (aka ^Z) is used by some brain dead MSDOS software as an end of file
- > >> marker.
- > >>
- > >> Dan
-
- > >It's useless drivel like this that make this group a chore to read
- > >through. None of the above has anything to do with comp.lang.c, and if
- > >you're gonna talk about msdos, perhaps you should send it to
- > >one of the msdos groups, where people might care about crap like this.
-
- > Who are you flaming? Dan is a good contributor to the newsgroup. Thanks to Mr.
- > Pop, I'm discovering that even though I have some sort of unconscious knowledge
- > of the C language which enables me to get on with the business of designing
- > robust programs, I don't seem to have complete knowledge of the explicit rules
- > of the standard. Linguists believe that speakers do not have conscious access
- > to the rules of their language which enables them to produce coherent
- > sentences. Could this also be true of programmers who have been coding for a
- > long time? Of course, as a programmer you have substantial explicit knowledge
- > of most of the rules.
-
- > >This is simply one more reason why ignorants and idiots should keep
- > >their mouth shut, when they choose to extend a useless thread in
- > >a group that already has too many useless threads.
- > >
- > >Next time before you followup on an off-topic thread, please,
- > >first read the FAQ, then don't post.
-
- > You _are_ flaming Dan. Why? If you follow the newsgroup a little more, you will
- > not that Dan's posts are usually concise, accurate and relevant.
-
- Kazimir,
- You are correct on both counts, I was flaming Dan, and Dan's posts are
- usually concise, accurate and relevant.
- ^^^^^^^
-
- I've been reading this group for years, as in plural, and I myself have
- learned a lot about the ANSI standard from Dan. However, just a few
- days before my post, Dan had made the same comments, "useless drivel",
- "ignorants and idiots", "keep their mouth shut", etc... to someone that
- Dan thought had posted irrelevant and incorrect information. Dan
- basically has 3 types of News posts, 1) the correct, concise info, 2)the
- rare off-topic non-relevant post, and 3) the out-and-out HARSH flames
- ^^^^
- against people's posts that do not meet Dan's standards. Now, take a
- sec and read the 2 lines above that Dan posted. Yeah, "27 is ASCII ESC"
- and "msdos uses ^Z as eof". Now, tell me Kazimir, what does that have
- to do with comp.lang.c? Answer: nothing. Yet Dan posted anyway.
- Hence, my satirical flame against Dan, using his own words against him,
- for posting off-topic, non-relevant info. I'm assuming most people
- found the humour in my flame, I apologize that the humour was lost on
- you.
-
- Karlon
-