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From: [e-mail] (Jimen Ching)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Are you really my colleagues?!?
Date: 21 Apr 1996 07:13:36 GMT
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[e-mail] wrote:
>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.)

Ok, you caugh me.  The adjective completely slipped my mind so I just
typed in 'old'.  I should have just left it out.  Go replace 'old'
with whatever adjective describes Shakespearian literature.

>appropriate to the topic. "How do I write to a serial port on a PC?"
>is being done in C is clearly almost incidental.

What if the question was "How do I write to a serial port on a PC in C?"
Would that still make C incidental?  When I read someones question
in c.l.c, I always assumed that the author wants the solution/answer
that applies only to C.  Otherwise, why did they post to c.l.c in
the first place?  If they wanted a Pascal solution, did they think
that posting to c.l.c will get them the answer?  Is that logical?

Let's face it.  There's no straight formula to determine if some
question is inappropriate.  If it was *that* simple, I'm sure even
these newbies could determine that.  This is all I'm saying.  My solution
to this problem is to either ignore the post altogether or email your
anger to the author.  Why must I see it?

--jc
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