Re: C as a Platonic pathology

On Aug 21, 12:47 pm, Richard Heathfield <r...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
spinoza1111said:

OK, jerk face,

Down this corridor, fourth on the left. There's a notice on the door
saying "Gentlemen", but ignore that, and go right on in.

You set out to destroy people here in order to commercially promote an
unsaleable book, ass wipe, so don't you dare lecture me about courtesy
or collegiality.


I do seem to recall that one's supposed to quote and
not bracket malloc.h.

I don't see why. It's not a standard header, so whether to use quotes
or chevrons is really a style issue. A good rule of thumb is "for
headers supplied by the implementation, use <>, and for your own
headers, use quotes", but there's no hard and fast rule about it.

Explain WHY in response to this post, because
I forget horseshit rules that derive from poor language design.

I don't know why you are bothering to use the header at all - you
don't need it. Nor do I know why you can't learn to ask politely. But

I will ask with collegiality when you reply with collegiality. OK,
it's not needed because it's in stdlib. You might have said that some
time ago.

the way in which C distinguishes between chevrons and quotes is
explained in K&R2 on p88, and the C Standard also explains it in
3.8.2 (C89) or 6.10.2 (C99).

You actually believe that secrets are knowledge,

There are no secrets here. You just have to learn to read. It
shouldn't take you more than a few years.

<nonsense and Shakespeare snipped>

Many thug Britons and pub bores really, really hate it when I quote
Shakespeare because it's always offensive to remind people deracinated
and decultured by an inferior and class-ridden educational system of
what they've been deprived of, especially when one's an American.

Sharif don't like it. You know he really hates it.


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