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- From: Jim_Mann@transarc.com
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: Are you really my colleagues?!?
- Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 13:42:02 -0400
- Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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- jching@aloha.com (Jimen Ching) writes:
- > Depends, what does the English language newsgroup suppose to cover about
- > English? I.e. does it also cover old English (Shakespearian). What if
- > I was looking for a Shakespearian translation of general relativity? What
- > would you do, direct me to a physics newsgroup? When was the last time
- > you met a physicist who knows Shakespeare?
-
- If you think Shakespeare is "old English," you obviously don't know
- much about the subject. And, most of the physicists I know aren't
- illiterate; they do know Shakespeare. (I have a physics background
- myself and re-read Shakespeare frequently.)
-
- But, to answer your main question, you go to the group that's most
- appropriate to the topic. "How do I write to a serial port on a PC?"
- is clearly a "programming a PC" issue; the fact that the programming
- is being done in C is clearly almost incidental.
-
- Granted, sometimes it's not clear what group to post to or that
- something isn't really a C issue. That's why I don't mind the "Is
- there a way to read from the keyboard without echoing to the screen?"
- type questions. Especially to a beginner, it may not be clear that
- this is platform-specific. But even a beginner should realize that
- questions about how to handle specific pieces of hardware on specific
- platforms are not general-purpose C questions but questions about the
- specific platform.
-
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