Re: The problems in comp.lang.c

Jeff P. Bailey said:

On 24/3/2008 14:43, Richard Heathfield wrote:
Jeff P. Bailey said:

<snip>

It is a sequence of slurs against jacob, with no obvious basis in
objective fact.


If you'd been here a bit longer, you'd know the basis in objective fact.
If you're prepared to put the work in, you will find many examples of Mr
Navia's articles that demonstrate this.

I haven't found any to date.

You can't have looked very hard.

I have to say that jacob navia has written
a popular and well-respected C compiler.

I am prepared to accept that it is popular.

To me, this is pretty strong
evidence that he's knowledgeable about C, and if you want to argue that
he's incompetent at C then the onus should be on you to provide evidence
for that.

I don't think he's truly incompetent. I do think he is less concerned with
the minutiae of C than he should be. I have provided plenty of evidence
for this in the past. You can either trust me on that (because I'm not
about to go digging about for old articles for your sake), or not. I don't
really care either way.

In the absence of such evidence, I can only conclude that you
have a personal bias against him.

Just because the evidence hasn't been posted in the last few days, that
doesn't mean it's absent. A few days' newsfeed is not of any particular
statistical significance.

<snip>

Of course you are right that my contributions to this group are
currently non-existent. I have to say that I'd be more inclined to
change that if the atmosphere round here was a bit more positive.

Surely that's the wrong way round? If you want the atmosphere around here
to be more positive, *make* it so by posting positive articles.

<snip>

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