Re: OT: console program

From: red floyd (no.spam_at_here.dude)
Date: 12/01/03 

Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2003 19:05:59 GMT

Xenos wrote:

> "Thomas Matthews" <Thomas_MatthewsSpitsOnSpamBots@sbcglobal.net> wrote in
> message news:PnKyb.32937$9a1.22011@newssvr32.news.prodigy.com...
>
>>Learn to use a web search engine. By searching this newsgroup and
>>news:comp.programming, you can find many suggestions for Windowing
>>libraries that are also portable to more than one platform.
>>
>>
>
> Learn to be a little less rude. I swear out of all the newsgroups I read,
> the C & C++ ones are the only ones where every one is rude, nasty, and anal
> about OT questions and replay formats. I would think that the most
> intelligent amongst us with be here.
>
> My question was geared toward getting advice from people with experience in
> what I need to do; something which is hard to accomplish (and I've tried)
> using a search engine. I don't think there is anything wrong with asking an
> off-topic question when it is asking for pointers to resources that are
> on-topic.
>

While some of the posters can be a bit abrupt, when the FAQ specifically states that this is a newsgroup for the STANDARD C++
LANGUAGE, and people keep posting stuff that is platform specific (n.b. maybe there should be a comp.programming.cross-platform),
how else are they to keep the signal/noise ratio down to a reasonable level? Otherwise, this ng would be nothing but, "How do I
create my Windows Dialog Box?"

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