Re: how can I test for backspace if( (c = getchar()) == '\b' )
From: infobahn (infobahn_at_btinternet.com)
Date: 02/12/05
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Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 05:03:40 +0000 (UTC)
Walter Roberson wrote:
>
> I have no objection at all to a group saying "This particular subject
> is our area of expertise, and considering the volumes of postings,
> on the whole most people here do not have time to pay attention to
> much that lays outside of that area."
That's more or less what they /do/ say here. Except that they spell
it differently (and in much shorter words).
> What I have not liked, though, is some of the manners in which
> other topics are dismissed, which at times becomes reminiscent of
> a butler looking down his nose and sniffing at the presumption that
> one of the "lower classes" would ask him for directions.
<shrug> Some people enjoy being rude. Some of these people are
extraordinarily knowledgeable about C. Nobody is barred from posting
here. Put these three facts together, and you get the response you
mentioned; it's inevitable.
> :You will not succeed.
>
> The evidence is certainly suggesting that I am not succeeding ;-)
What the heck, as long as you enjoy thinking and typing?
>
> :Continuing to pursue is
> :petulant and disgraceful on your part. You should stop now and
> :apologize, as a professional should. I hold out little hope.
>
> I make no apology for suggesting that people be treated with more
> consideration.
YOU CAD!
> I used to know a doctor [with the bedside manner of a Vogon]
<snip>
> I went to buy something a few months ago [and succeeded]
<snip>
> There may be technical meanings to "professional", but I would suggest
> that in the common parlance of the average person, that the doctor
> would be judged by most to be quite non-professional in the way he treated
> patients (as "interesting cases" rather than as feeling beings),
> but that most people would understand and agree that the sales-clerk
> acted "professionally" in treating me as human and ensuring my
> satisfaction even though I did not fit into the regular clientele.
The analogy falls completely apart because both the doctor and the
sales clerk got PAID for the assistance they rendered. Here in
comp.lang.c, only the cabal members get paid, remember?
Now, if you start sending me a pay-cheque every month for supplying
newbies with answers to questions they can find in their C book if
only they could be bothered to look, I'll cut down on the offensive
language and hostile glares I give Unix people and Windows people
when they dare to come into the shop. Until then, I fully intend to
be exactly as rude and arrogant in the future as I have been in the
past, and who are /you/ to stop me?
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