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- From: c2a192@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca (Kazimir Kylheku)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: Are you really my colleagues?!?
- Date: 16 Apr 1996 14:05:12 -0700
- Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
- Message-ID: <4l1228INN9hs@mayne.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca>
- References: <317299C2.167E@gi.alaska.edu>
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- In article <317299C2.167E@gi.alaska.edu>,
- Jason Wynne Parsons <jason@gi.alaska.edu> wrote:
- >What's going on here people?
- >
- >I pop into this newsgroup for a few weeks every couple of months to
- >continue a tradition of free information exchange with those (including
- >myself) in need of advice. Of late replies to postings become more and
- >more aggressive and arrogant instead of helpful. Perhaps the faq on
- >netiqette should remain a permanent posting to all newsgroups now.
- >
- >Often times Posters get flamed for posting to the "wrong" newsgroup. Has
- >this newsgroup become so focused on C syntax that applications to other
- >areas using C or alternative comparisons to C are no longer welcome? Or,
- >are the brilliant minds who send these quaint replies and colorful
- >metaphors merely expressing their creative side?
-
- This newsgroup is for the discussion of the C language, not for the discussion
- of how to do your laundry or feed your dog with the C language. The lexical
- properties, syntax and semantics of the C language are of utmost interest.
-
- Questions of ``how do I do X'' with the C language are of secondary interest,
- and keep the discussion more lively and interesting. Of course, X is restricted
- to the domain of programming idioms (How do I read numbers from standard IO
- stream?), not entire applications or domains of interest (how do I do 3D
- graphics or write a word processor?) or system-specific operations or
- operations not covered by the C language (how do I read a block from the hard
- disk?)
-
- While all these other things are interesting, and certainly worthy of
- discussion elsewhere, they are clearly not the purpose of comp.lang.c.
-
- As someone in this newsgroup once cleverly put: that one can describe
- the theory of general relativity in English doesn't mean one ought to discuss
- relativity in a newsgroup about the English language.
-
- >There are those of us who actually use C as tool without worshipping it as
- >a Panacea. I hope those who view this newsgroup do not think the attitude
- >of recent responses represent the global personality of our field. Or,
- >aresuch attitudes all I have to look forward to in the workplace?
-
- It's hardly surprising to find C lovers in a newsgroup dedicated solely to the C
- language.
- --
- I'm not really a jerk, but I play one on Usenet.
-