Re: Linux compiling

From: Alwyn (alwyn_at_blueyonder.co.uk)
Date: 12/03/04 

Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2004 07:51:38 GMT

On Thu, 02 Dec 2004 21:04:40 -0600, Jack Klein wrote:
>
> The remark above comes from thinking? Perhaps you should work on your
> thinking skills.

<snip>

> There are quite a few things that are popular among the careless and
> ignorant. Do you think we should encourage carelessness and
> ignorance?

What is it about Usenet that makes people get so worked up over such
trivialities as the correct return type of a C function and make
violent personal attacks on those whom they perceive to be in disagreement
with them? Why do programming languages generate the kind of emotion among
the geeky that one associates with religion and politics in normal people?

Alwyn

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